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Enrollment
806
High
DISTRICT 429 · STATE 468
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEWTON COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 192061001226
Newton Senior High School
800 E 4th St S, Newton, IA 50208 · (641) 792-5797 · Jasper County
GRADES 09–12HIGH32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL806 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 22% of Iowa public high schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Iowa public high schools
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
343 students
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 41%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 224 | 28% |
| Grade 10 | 218 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 189 | 23% |
| Grade 12 | 175 | 22% |
Student demographics
31%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 31% · STATE 48% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Newton Comm School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
69.5%
IA avg 73.6% . +3.6pp since 2023
Math
64.7%
IA avg 70.9% . +2.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.5% | 64.7% |
| 2023-24 | 65.9% | 62.5% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: ISASP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
65.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
70.7%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 71% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Iowa's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Newton Senior High School
Newton Senior High School's state test result (65.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newton Senior High School this school | 806 | 42.6% | 65.1% |
| Spencer High School Spencer | 688 | 45.3% | 79.1% |
| Creston High School Creston | 486 | 44.2% | 76.1% |
| Oskaloosa High School Oskaloosa | 632 | 38.1% | 66.9% |
| Abraham Lincoln High School Council Bluffs | 1,333 | 46.1% | 52.6% |
| Glenwood Senior High School Glenwood | 570 | 36.8% | 75.2% |
Matched among Iowa high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Newton Senior High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Jasper County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.1% | #247 of 313 | N/A |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.7% | #227 of 314 ▲ 7 | N/A |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.5% | #249 of 314 ▲ 24 | N/A |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 806 | #58 of 340 | #1 of 6 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.6:1 | #208 of 259 | N/A |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 31.2% | #95 of 260 | N/A |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 42.6% | #95 of 320 | N/A |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.2% | #91 of 125 | N/A |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
806
-40 (-5%) vs 2020
-22% since 1990-91, when it was 1,029
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
was 17.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 806 | 48.5 | 16.6:1 | 43% (343) |
| 2023-24 | 798 | 49.8 | 16.0:1 | 46% (366) |
| 2022-23 | 818 | 48.7 | 16.8:1 | 47% (386) |
| 2020-21 | 846 | 48 | 17.6:1 | 40% (341) |
| 2017-18 | 850 | 50.1 | 17.0:1 | 43% (364) |
| 2015-16 | 819 | 52 | 15.8:1 | 38% (310) |
| 2010-11 | 855 | 59 | 14.5:1 | 36% (306) |
| 2000-01 | 1,031 | 78 | 13.2:1 | 12% (124) |
| 1990-91 | 1,029 | 66 | 15.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Newton Senior High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (850 to 806); teachers down 3% (50.1 to 48.5).
About Newton Senior High School
Newton Senior High School is a high-enrollment high school in Newton, Iowa, one of the schools in Newton Comm School District. Enrollment is 806 students in 2024-25, and the school serves grades 9 through 12. Against the 468-student average for high schools in Iowa, enrollment here is 72% higher.
Newton Comm School District is the local district for Newton Senior High School. It runs 7 schools with 2,929 students.
The student body at Newton Senior High School is 82% White. Other reported shares: 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 3% Black. Jasper County's residents are about 92% White, 9 points above the school's share. The school's diversity index is 31%, meaning two students picked at random have a 31% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Its teaching staff equals 48.5 full-time positions, a ratio of 16.6:1. On average, high schools in Iowa have 17.3:1, compared with 16.6:1 here. Around 43% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. That tracks the 40% average for public schools in Jasper County.
Measured against Iowa public high schools, Newton Senior High School receives a C-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Newton Senior High School, the prediction is 70.7% and the result is 65.1%.
Newton Senior High School is located in Jasper County, where the median household income is $71,311, about 20% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Besides Newton Senior High School, Jasper County has 17 other public schools.
The school nearest to Newton Senior High School is Woodrow Wilson Elementary School, at a distance of about 0.7 miles. Other public schools within five miles number 6. Newton Senior High School is 7th of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Town: Distant: in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
Enrollment has fallen by 40 students since 2020-21, to 806. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 16.6:1, from 17.6:1.
Threads on this page can be about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Jasper County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
37,954
Census ACS
Median income
$71,311
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
18
5,668 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Newton Comm School District
- Berg Middle SchoolMiddle · 790 students
- Thomas Jefferson Elementary SchoolElementary · 380 students
- Emerson Hough Elementary SchoolElementary · 336 students
- Woodrow Wilson Elementary SchoolElementary · 306 students
- Aurora Heights Elementary SchoolElementary · 260 students
- WEST Academy Alternative SchoolHigh · 51 students
Other schools in Newton
- Berg Middle SchoolMiddle · 790 students
- Thomas Jefferson Elementary SchoolElementary · 380 students
- Emerson Hough Elementary SchoolElementary · 336 students
- Woodrow Wilson Elementary SchoolElementary · 306 students
- Aurora Heights Elementary SchoolElementary · 260 students
- WEST Academy Alternative SchoolHigh · 51 students
Other Newton Senior High schools
One other US public school is named Newton Senior High. Newton Senior High School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Newton Sr HighNewton, KS · 932 students
Nearby schools
- Woodrow Wilson Elementary School0.7 mi · 306
- Emerson Hough Elementary School0.9 mi · 336
- WEST Academy Alternative School1.2 mi · 51
- Aurora Heights Elementary School1.4 mi · 260
- Berg Middle School1.5 mi · 790
- Thomas Jefferson Elementary School1.6 mi · 380
Frequently asked questions
About Newton Senior High SchoolHow many students attend Newton Senior High School?
Newton Senior High School enrolls approximately 806 students in grades 09-12.
Is Newton Senior High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Newton Senior High School is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many teachers does Newton Senior High School have?
Newton Senior High School employs 49 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.6:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Newton Senior High School?
At Newton Senior High School, the student body is approximately 82% White, 8% Hispanic, 3% Black, 0% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Newton Senior High School in?
Newton Senior High School is part of Newton Comm School District.
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