Maquoketa Valley Senior High School

Maquoketa Valley Senior High School is a 9-12 campus of modestly sized scale in Delhi, Iowa, part of Maquoketa Valley Comm School District, educateing 206 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 56% leaner than the state mean of about 468.

Maquoketa Valley Senior High School is one of 5 schools operated by Maquoketa Valley Comm School District, a district that instructs 702 students overall.

Demographically, Maquoketa Valley Senior High School shows that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That composition is broadly in line with Delaware County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Roughly 32% of students at Maquoketa Valley Senior High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Maquoketa Valley Senior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 75.9%, the actual is 82.7%, a residual of +6.8 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Delaware County indicate the typical household earns roughly $74,989 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Maquoketa Valley Senior High School is one of 10 public schools in Delaware County (combined enrollment of about 2,571 students).

Nearest neighbor: Delhi Elementary School, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Maquoketa Valley Senior High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 82.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Maquoketa Valley Senior High School's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 201 (now 206).

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.