Pocahontas Area Middle/ High School

Pocahontas Area Middle/ High School is one of the small senior highs in Pocahontas, Iowa, part of Pocahontas Area Comm School District, with 367 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 468 students each, so Pocahontas Area Middle/ High School sits 22% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in Pocahontas Area Comm School District (659 students total), Pocahontas Area Middle/ High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Pocahontas Area Middle/ High School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%). Beyond that, the school lists 10% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Pacific Islander. By comparison, Pocahontas County as a whole is about 90% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Pocahontas Area Middle/ High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Pocahontas Area Middle/ High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 65.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 70.5%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Pocahontas County shows the typical household earns roughly $61,875 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Pocahontas County's 4 public schools (combined enrollment of about 806 students), Pocahontas Area Middle/ High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Pocahontas Area Elementary School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pocahontas Area Middle/ High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 62.5%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 376 students in 2018 compared to 367 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 92% to 81% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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