Moulton-Udell High School

Moulton-Udell High School, a micro-enrollment high school in Moulton, Iowa, one of the schools within Moulton-Udell Comm School District, teaches 85 students, covering grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 468 students each, so Moulton-Udell High School sits 82% below that benchmark.

Moulton-Udell Comm School District comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 188 students; Moulton-Udell High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Moulton-Udell High School logs that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 4% multiracial, 2% Native American. Compared to Appanoose County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Moulton-Udell High School reports 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 56% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Moulton-Udell High School is in the bottom 10% of Iowa public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 63.7%; Moulton-Udell High School posts 46.0%, -17.7 points below that line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Appanoose County) reports that median household income runs about $54,934, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Appanoose County runs 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,767 students), of which Moulton-Udell High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Moulton Elementary School, around 0.0 miles off. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Moulton-Udell High School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 62.9%.

Moulton-Udell High School operates from a countryside location.

Five-year trend. Moulton-Udell High School's enrollment has increased 15% since 2018, when it stood at 74 (now 85). Class-load math has widened: from 8.3:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

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