Orient-Macksburg Senior High School

Orient-Macksburg Senior High School, a rural-scale secondary school in Orient, Iowa, part of Orient-Macksburg Comm School District, hosts 50 students, covering grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 89% leaner than the state mean of about 468.

Orient-Macksburg Comm School District comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 108 students; Orient-Macksburg Senior High School is among them.

On demographics, Orient-Macksburg Senior High School records that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 6% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Orient-Macksburg Senior High School has 0 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 555.6:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 56% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Adair County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Orient-Macksburg Senior High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 63.9%; this one delivers 66.7%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Adair County indicate median household earnings sit near $68,092, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Adair County's 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 744 students), Orient-Macksburg Senior High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Orient Elementary School, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Orient-Macksburg Senior High School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 74.7%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Orient-Macksburg Senior High School's enrollment has shrank 29% since 2018, when it stood at 70 (now 50). Class-load math has rose: from 10.3:1 in 2018 to 555.6:1 in 2025.

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