Sheldon High School

As a cozy high school in Sheldon, Iowa, Sheldon High School enrolls 356 students from grades 9 through 12, operated by Sheldon Comm School District. Enrollment runs roughly 24% below the state mean of about 468.

Sheldon Comm School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,179 students; Sheldon High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Sheldon High School logs that the largest single group is White, at 65% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 29% Hispanic. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 88%.

On the resource side, On paper, Sheldon High School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Sheldon High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Sheldon High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 75.5%; this one delivers 77.2%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for O'Brien County put the typical household earns roughly $68,356 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, O'Brien County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,377 students), of which Sheldon High School is one.

Little Orabs Preschool is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Sheldon High School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sheldon High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 78.6%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 3%: 345 students in 2018 compared to 356 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 17% to 29% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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