Tri-Center High School

Tri-Center High School operates as an intimate senior high in Neola, Iowa, overseen by Tri-Center Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 225 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 52% below the typical public school in Iowa, which averages around 468 students.

Tri-Center Comm School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 724 students. Tri-Center High School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Tri-Center High School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%); the rest reads as 5% Hispanic. Compared to Pottawattamie County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Tri-Center High School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 30% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Pottawattamie County's rate of about 40%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Tri-Center High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 76.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 72.8%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Pottawattamie County) shows that median household income runs about $73,602, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Pottawattamie County's 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,270 students), Tri-Center High School is one campus in the mix.

Tri-Center 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. On composite proficiency, Tri-Center High School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 80.8%.

Tri-Center High School operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Tri-Center High School has ticked up 7%, going from 211 students in 2018 to 225 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 98% to 91% across the same window.

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