Westwood High School

Westwood High School, a low-enrollment high school in Sloan, Iowa, run under Westwood Comm School District, hosts 275 students, covering grades 7 through 12. That puts it 41% smaller than the typical public school in Iowa, which averages around 468 students.

Westwood Comm School District comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 597 students; Westwood High School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Westwood High School logs that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 71% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 36% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Woodbury County (around 60%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Westwood High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 73.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 76.4%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Woodbury County shows median household income runs about $73,658, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Westwood High School is one of 37 public schools in Woodbury County (combined enrollment of about 18,210 students).

Nearest neighbor: Westwood Elementary School, around 0.0 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 3 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Westwood High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 74.0%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 9%: 252 students in 2018 compared to 275 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 20.5:1 in 2025.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.