Urbandale High School

As a heavily attended 9-12 campus in Urbandale, Iowa, Urbandale High School instructs 1,301 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within Urbandale Comm School District. Enrollment runs roughly 178% above the state mean of about 468.

Within Urbandale Comm School District, which oversees 6 schools and 4,165 students, Urbandale High School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Urbandale High School records that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 16% Hispanic, 9% Black, 7% Asian, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 76% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 88 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 36% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Polk County's rate of about 49%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Urbandale High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.8%, the actual is 68.0%, a residual of -5.7 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Polk County indicate median household earnings sit near $83,576, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Polk County runs 137 public schools (combined enrollment of about 77,436 students), of which Urbandale High School is one.

Olmsted Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Urbandale High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Urbandale High School at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 63.7%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Urbandale High School's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 1,301 (now 1,301). The White share of enrollment edged down from 75% to 63% over that span.

On allk12, the feed for Urbandale High School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.