North Polk High School

Set in Alleman, Iowa, North Polk High School is a mid-tier high school, run under North Polk Comm School District. It teaches 644 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 38% bigger than the state mean of about 468.

Within North Polk Comm School District, which oversees 5 schools and 2,309 students, North Polk High School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, North Polk High School logs that nearly all students (92%) are White. The remainder consists of 4% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 76%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.2:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 10% of students at North Polk High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Polk County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, North Polk High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 86.8%, the actual is 84.6%, a residual of -2.2 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Polk County) records that median household income runs about $83,576, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Polk County's 137 public schools (combined enrollment of about 77,436 students), North Polk High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: North Polk Central Elementary School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around North Polk High School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), North Polk High School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 82.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 37%: 471 students in 2018 compared to 644 in 2025.

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