St Ansgar High School

St Ansgar High School operates as an one-room-style 9-12 campus in St Ansgar, Iowa, overseen by St Ansgar Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 166 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 468 students each, so St Ansgar High School sits 65% below that benchmark.

St Ansgar High School is one of 3 schools operated by St Ansgar Comm School District, a district that hosts 643 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, St Ansgar High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). Other groups include 4% Hispanic. Compared to Mitchell County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, On paper, St Ansgar High School has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting St Ansgar High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 23% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, St Ansgar High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 80.2%, the actual is 84.6%, a residual of +4.4 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Mitchell County put the typical household earns roughly $71,365 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Mitchell County's 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,631 students), St Ansgar High School is one campus in the mix.

St Ansgar Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), St Ansgar High School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 62.4%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at St Ansgar High School has contracted 14%, going from 193 students in 2018 to 166 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 today.

On the community side, members of the St Ansgar High School community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.