North-Linn Senior High School

North-Linn Senior High School operates as a very small secondary school in Troy Mills, Iowa, one of the schools within North Linn Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 158 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 468 students each, so North-Linn Senior High School sits 66% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in North Linn Comm School District (550 students total), North-Linn Senior High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, North-Linn Senior High School records that nearly all students (96%) are White; the rest comes out to 3% multiracial. By comparison, Linn County as a whole is about 84% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Around 25% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Linn County's rate of about 40%.

With demographic context factored in, North-Linn Senior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 79.6%, the actual is 78.8%, a residual of -0.8 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Linn County) shows that median household earnings sit near $77,649, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. North-Linn Senior High School is one of 83 public schools in Linn County (combined enrollment of about 36,480 students).

Nearest neighbor: North-Linn Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around North-Linn Senior High School. On composite proficiency, North-Linn Senior High School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 77.3%.

North-Linn Senior High School operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 24%: 208 students in 2018 compared to 158 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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