Southwest Valley High school

Southwest Valley High school is a compact senior high in Corning, Iowa, run under Corning Comm School District. The school hosts 195 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 58% below the state mean of about 468.

Across the 2 schools in Corning Comm School District (405 students total), Southwest Valley High school accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Southwest Valley High school shows that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 3% multiracial. Compared to Adams County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Southwest Valley High school is in the bottom 10% of Iowa public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 73.2%; Southwest Valley High school posts 56.1%, -17.1 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Adams County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $71,875 per year, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Adams County runs 2 public schools (combined enrollment of about 405 students), of which Southwest Valley High school is one.

Nearest neighbor: Corning Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. On composite proficiency, Southwest Valley High school comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 74.9%.

Southwest Valley High school operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 7%: 182 students in 2018 compared to 195 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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