Southeast Warren Jr-Sr High School
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Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 84 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 78% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 77% 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 Southeast Warren Jr-Sr High School
As a cozy secondary school in Liberty Center, Iowa, Southeast Warren Jr-Sr High School teaches 276 students from grades 5 through 12, one of the schools within Southeast Warren Comm School District. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 468 students each, so Southeast Warren Jr-Sr High School sits 41% smaller than that benchmark.
Across the 3 schools in Southeast Warren Comm School District (533 students total), Southeast Warren Jr-Sr High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, Southeast Warren Jr-Sr High School shows that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 4% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Warren County as a whole.
On the income-and-resources front, Southeast Warren Jr-Sr High School lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.7:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 30% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Southeast Warren Jr-Sr High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 77.1%; this one delivers 78.0%.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Warren County indicate median household earnings sit near $94,588, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. In all, Warren County runs 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,473 students), of which Southeast Warren Jr-Sr High School is one.
Southeast Warren Intermediate is the nearest neighboring public school, about 5.9 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Southeast Warren Jr-Sr High School at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 76.3%.
Southeast Warren Jr-Sr High School operates from an outlying location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Southeast Warren Jr-Sr High School has grew 18%, going from 233 students in 2018 to 276 in 2025.
In the discussion threads here, the feed for Southeast Warren Jr-Sr High School typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.
Warren County at a glance
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