Summary:
The Diagonal Community School District in Iowa is home to a single high school, Diagonal Junior-Senior High School, which serves students in grades 7-12. The school's performance and characteristics suggest it faces significant challenges in providing a quality education to its students.
Diagonal Junior-Senior High School has a low statewide ranking, placing between 259th and 316th out of 332-340 Iowa high schools in recent years. The school has a 0-1 star rating out of 5 from SchoolDigger, indicating below-average performance. Its 4-year graduation rate of 88.3% is slightly below the state average, and it has a high chronic absenteeism rate of 21.6%, significantly higher than the state average. Academically, the school's proficiency rates in English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science are all lower than the state averages.
Despite these challenges, Diagonal Junior-Senior High School has a relatively small student population of 49 students and a low student-to-teacher ratio of 8.6, which is lower than the state average. However, the school has a high percentage of free and reduced-price lunch recipients at 55.1%, indicating a high level of economic disadvantage among the student population. The school's per-student spending is $16,743, which is higher than the state average, suggesting that the school may not be effectively utilizing its resources to improve student outcomes.
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