Perry High School

Set in Perry, Iowa, Perry High School is a middle-of-the-pack high school, run under Perry Comm School District. It caters to 549 students across grades 9 through 12.

Within Perry Comm School District, which oversees 3 schools and 1,735 students, Perry High School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Perry High School records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 38% White, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 7% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Perry High School has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. About 54% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Dallas County's rate of about 22%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Perry High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.7%, the actual is 67.3%, a residual of +2.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Dallas County put median household income runs about $102,379, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Dallas County's 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,938 students), Perry High School is one campus in the mix.

Perry Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Perry High School. On composite proficiency, Perry High School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 77.0%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 7%: 589 students in 2018 compared to 549 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 43% to 38% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.