Wapsie Valley High School

Located at RR 2 2535 Viking Ave, in Fairbank, Iowa, Wapsie Valley High School is a cozy senior high that caters to 273 students (grades 7 through 12), operated by Wapsie Valley Comm School District. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 468 students each, so Wapsie Valley High School sits 42% leaner than that benchmark.

Wapsie Valley Comm School District runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 637 students. Wapsie Valley High School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Wapsie Valley High School shows that nearly all students (94%) are White; the rest breaks down as 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. An estimated 17% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Wapsie Valley High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 83.3%; this one comes in at 67.7%, -15.6 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, census data for Bremer County shows median household earnings sit near $86,784, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Wapsie Valley High School is one of 20 public schools in Bremer County (combined enrollment of about 5,346 students).

Nearest neighbor: Readlyn Elementary School, around 4.6 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wapsie Valley High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 81.5%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wapsie Valley High School has held roughly steady, going from 278 students in 2018 to 273 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.

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