Humboldt High School

Humboldt High School operates as a mid-sized high school in Humboldt, Iowa, overseen by Humboldt Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 464 students spanning grades 9 through 12.

Humboldt Comm School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,426 students; Humboldt High School is among them.

Demographically, Humboldt High School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). The remainder breaks down as 13% Hispanic, 2% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.5:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 30% of students at Humboldt High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Humboldt High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 76.8%, the actual is 80.2%, a residual of +3.3 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Humboldt County shows median household earnings sit near $71,946, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Humboldt High School is one of 6 public schools in Humboldt County (combined enrollment of about 1,530 students).

Humboldt Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Humboldt High School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 61.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Looking at the recent track record. Humboldt High School's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 456 (now 464). The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 8% to 13% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 today.

On allk12, members of the Humboldt High School community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.