North High School

North High School is a high school of sizable scale in Davenport, Iowa, run under Davenport Comm School District, works with 1,190 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 154% larger than the typical public school in Iowa, which averages around 468 students.

Davenport Comm School District comprises 27 schools with combined enrollment of 12,812 students; North High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, North High School records that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 27% Black, 15% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 79%.

In terms of school funding signals, North High School records 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.9:1. The state averages about 17.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 52% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Scott County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), North High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 66.0%; this one comes in at 47.5%, -18.5 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Scott County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $78,277 per year, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. North High School is one of 53 public schools in Scott County (combined enrollment of about 26,100 students).

Harrison Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around North High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts North High School at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 52.4%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 1,191 students in 2018 compared to 1,190 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 55% to 46% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.