North Iowa High School

North Iowa High School operates as a very small high school in Buffalo Center, Iowa, overseen by North Iowa Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 124 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 74% smaller than the state mean of about 468.

North Iowa Comm School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 466 students; North Iowa High School is among them.

Looking at the student body, North Iowa High School reports that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 17% Hispanic. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 89%.

On the income-and-resources front, North Iowa High School records 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.6:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, North Iowa High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 71.4%; this one delivers 71.0%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Winnebago County) shows that median household earnings sit near $67,642, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. North Iowa High School is one of 9 public schools in Winnebago County (combined enrollment of about 2,190 students).

North Iowa Elementary Buffalo Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, North Iowa High School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 79.9%.

North Iowa High School operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at North Iowa High School has fell 4%, going from 129 students in 2018 to 124 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 91% to 81% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 10.1:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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