Ruthven-Ayrshire High School

Ruthven-Ayrshire High School operates as a rural-scale 9-12 campus in Ruthven, Iowa, operated by Ruthven-Ayrshire Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 58 students spanning grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 468 students each, so Ruthven-Ayrshire High School sits 88% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Ruthven-Ayrshire Comm School District, which oversees 2 schools and 147 students, Ruthven-Ayrshire High School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Ruthven-Ayrshire High School reports that nearly all students (88%) are White. The remainder looks like 9% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Ruthven-Ayrshire High School shows 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.0:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 38% of students at Ruthven-Ayrshire High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Ruthven-Ayrshire High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 73.0%; this one delivers 68.3%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Palo Alto County) records that the typical household earns roughly $72,781 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Ruthven-Ayrshire High School is one of 10 public schools in Palo Alto County (combined enrollment of about 1,472 students).

Nearest neighbor: Ruthven-Ayrshire Elementary School, around 0.0 miles off. On composite proficiency, Ruthven-Ayrshire High School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 70.3%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ruthven-Ayrshire High School has declined 31%, going from 84 students in 2018 to 58 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 2% to 9%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.

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