Wapello Junior High School

Located at 501 Buchanan St, in Wapello, Iowa, Wapello Junior High School is an one-room-style 6-8 campus that caters to 102 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by Wapello Comm School District. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 400 students each, so Wapello Junior High School sits 75% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Wapello Comm School District, which oversees 3 schools and 518 students, Wapello Junior High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Wapello Junior High School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 45% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Wapello Junior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.4%, the actual is 71.0%, a residual of +1.6 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Louisa County put median household income runs about $77,354, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Wapello Junior High School is one of 9 public schools in Louisa County (combined enrollment of about 2,165 students).

The closest other public school is Wapello Senior High School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Wapello Junior High School at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 67.3%.

Wapello Junior High School operates from a low-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wapello Junior High School has edged up 16%, going from 88 students in 2018 to 102 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 93% to 84% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 today.

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