Newell-Fonda High School

Newell-Fonda High School is one of the very small 9-12 campuss in Newell, Iowa, overseen by Newell-Fonda Comm School District, with 138 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 468 students per school, that is 71% below typical.

Newell-Fonda High School is one of 3 schools operated by Newell-Fonda Comm School District, a district that instructs 542 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Newell-Fonda High School logs that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment. Other groups include 12% Hispanic, 7% Pacific Islander, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Buena Vista County as a whole is about 60% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Newell-Fonda High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 35% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Buena Vista County (around 60%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Newell-Fonda High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 74.5%; actual is 64.1%, a gap of -10.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Buena Vista County shows the typical household earns roughly $71,719 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Newell-Fonda High School is one of 15 public schools in Buena Vista County (combined enrollment of about 4,691 students).

Newell-Fonda Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Newell-Fonda High School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 54.7%.

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

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 3%: 142 students in 2018 compared to 138 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share decreased from 22% to 12%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 8.9:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Newell-Fonda High School typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.