Sigourney Jr-Sr High Sch
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Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 86 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 77 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 73% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Iowa's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Sigourney Jr-Sr High Sch
As a tight-knit 9-12 campus in Sigourney, Iowa, Sigourney Jr-Sr High Sch serves 287 students from grades 7 through 12, one of the schools within Sigourney Comm School District. That puts it 39% leaner than the typical public school in Iowa, which averages around 468 students.
Sigourney Jr-Sr High Sch is one of 2 schools operated by Sigourney Comm School District, a district that hosts 605 students overall.
Demographically, Sigourney Jr-Sr High Sch logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Keokuk County as a whole.
On the income-and-resources front, Sigourney Jr-Sr High Sch shows 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Sigourney Jr-Sr High Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sigourney Jr-Sr High Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.5%, the actual is 79.4%, a residual of +6.0 points.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Keokuk County put the typical household earns roughly $62,329 per year, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Sigourney Jr-Sr High Sch is one of 6 public schools in Keokuk County (combined enrollment of about 1,063 students).
The closest other public school is Sigourney Elementary, roughly 0.5 miles away. On composite proficiency, Sigourney Jr-Sr High Sch comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 71.0%.
Sigourney Jr-Sr High Sch operates from a rural location.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sigourney Jr-Sr High Sch has edged up 6%, going from 271 students in 2018 to 287 in 2025.
On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Keokuk County at a glance
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