Stanton High School

Located at 605 Elliott Street, in Stanton, Iowa, Stanton High School is an one-room-style high school that instructs 153 students (grades 6 through 12), one of the schools within Stanton Comm School District. Enrollment runs roughly 67% leaner than the state mean of about 468.

Stanton Comm School District comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 298 students; Stanton High School is among them.

On demographics, Stanton High School reports that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Stanton High School has 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Stanton High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 26% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Montgomery County's rate of about 47%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Stanton High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 78.9%; this one delivers 76.3%.

In the area at large, census data for Montgomery County shows median household income runs about $63,666, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Montgomery County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,473 students), Stanton High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Stanton Elementary School, around 0.0 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 6 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Stanton High School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 66.6%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 31%: 117 students in 2018 compared to 153 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.

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