Springville Secondary School

Set in Springville, Iowa, Springville Secondary School is an one-room-style 9-12 campus, part of Springville Comm School District. It works with 184 students across grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 61% below the state mean of about 468.

Springville Secondary School is one of 2 schools operated by Springville Comm School District, a district that hosts 478 students overall.

On demographics, Springville Secondary School reports that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 3% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Linn County as a whole is about 84% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.7:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 24% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Linn County (around 40%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Springville Secondary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 80.0%, the actual is 78.8%, a residual of -1.2 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Linn County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $77,649 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Springville Secondary School is one of 83 public schools in Linn County (combined enrollment of about 36,480 students).

Springville Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Springville Secondary School at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 76.1%.

Springville Secondary School operates from a rural location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 185 students in 2018 compared to 184 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 10.7:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 in 2025.

On allk12, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.