Williamsburg Jr-Sr High School

Located at 810 W Walnut, in Williamsburg, Iowa, Williamsburg Jr-Sr High School is a moderately sized secondary school that works with 604 students (grades 7 through 12), one of the schools within Williamsburg Comm School District. That puts it 29% above the typical public school in Iowa, which averages around 468 students.

Williamsburg Comm School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,213 students; Williamsburg Jr-Sr High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Williamsburg Jr-Sr High School logs that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 7% Hispanic, 2% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Roughly 22% of students at Williamsburg Jr-Sr High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Williamsburg Jr-Sr High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 81.2%, the actual is 85.0%, a residual of +3.8 points.

In the broader community, census data for Iowa County shows the typical household earns roughly $71,223 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Iowa County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,580 students), Williamsburg Jr-Sr High School is one campus in the mix.

Williamsburg Virtual Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Williamsburg Jr-Sr High School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Williamsburg Jr-Sr High School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 76.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Williamsburg Jr-Sr High School's enrollment has edged up 11% since 2018, when it stood at 545 (now 604).

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