Okoboji High School

As an intimate secondary school in Milford, Iowa, Okoboji High School serves 366 students from grades 9 through 12, operated by Okoboji Comm School District. Compared to the state average of about 468 students per school, that is 22% smaller than typical.

Okoboji Comm School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,196 students; Okoboji High School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Okoboji High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. An estimated 29% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Okoboji High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 77.6%, the actual is 74.2%, a residual of -3.4 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Dickinson County indicate median household income runs about $75,432, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Okoboji High School is one of 9 public schools in Dickinson County (combined enrollment of about 3,005 students).

The closest other public school is Okoboji Middle School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Okoboji High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 79.1%.

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

Looking at the recent track record. Okoboji High School's enrollment has increased 37% since 2018, when it stood at 268 (now 366). Class-load math has loosened: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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