Waukee High School

Set in Waukee, Iowa, Waukee High School is a sizable secondary school, one of the schools within Waukee Comm School District. It works with 1,375 students across grades 10 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 468 students per school, that is 194% larger than typical.

Waukee Comm School District comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 13,917 students; Waukee High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Waukee High School shows that White students make up the majority at 63%. The remainder comes out to 10% Black, 9% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 84% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 82 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 23% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Waukee High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 80.5%; actual is 70.1%, a gap of -10.3 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Dallas County) records that the typical household earns roughly $102,379 per year, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Dallas County's 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,938 students), Waukee High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Prairieview School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Waukee High School. On composite proficiency, Waukee High School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 79.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Waukee High School has ticked down 29%, going from 1,941 students in 2018 to 1,375 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 82% to 63% across the same window.

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