Wayne Community Jr-Sr High School

Wayne Community Jr-Sr High School, a low-enrollment 9-12 campus in Corydon, Iowa, run under Wayne Comm School District, caters to 255 students, covering grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 468 students each, so Wayne Community Jr-Sr High School sits 46% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Wayne Comm School District, which oversees 2 schools and 583 students, Wayne Community Jr-Sr High School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Wayne Community Jr-Sr High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). That composition is broadly in line with Wayne County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.7:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 55% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Wayne Community Jr-Sr High School ranks in the top 10% of Iowa public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 64.5%; Wayne Community Jr-Sr High School posts 78.4%, +13.9 points above that line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Wayne County) logs that median household earnings sit near $61,964, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Wayne County's 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,032 students), Wayne Community Jr-Sr High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Wayne Elementary School, around 0.4 miles off. On composite proficiency, Wayne Community Jr-Sr High School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 63.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Over the past 7-year window. Wayne Community Jr-Sr High School's enrollment has declined 6% since 2018, when it stood at 270 (now 255).

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