Norwalk Senior High School

Norwalk Senior High School is a senior high of expansive scale in Norwalk, Iowa, operated by Norwalk Comm School District, caters to 1,035 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 121% larger than the typical public school in Iowa, which averages around 468 students.

Across the 5 schools in Norwalk Comm School District (3,519 students total), Norwalk Senior High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Norwalk Senior High School logs that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 17.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 15% of students at Norwalk Senior High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Warren County (around 24%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Norwalk Senior High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 84.4%; this one delivers 75.2%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Warren County put the typical household earns roughly $94,588 per year, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Norwalk Senior High School is one of 20 public schools in Warren County (combined enrollment of about 10,473 students).

Nearest neighbor: Norwalk Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Norwalk Senior High School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 61.7%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 27%: 818 students in 2018 compared to 1,035 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.

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