High Schools in North Mahaska Community School District


Summary:

The North Mahaska Community School District in Iowa is home to a single high school, North Mahaska Junior-Senior High School, which serves grades 7-12. The school has consistently ranked in the top half of Iowa high schools and maintains a 3-star rating from SchoolDigger.

North Mahaska Junior-Senior High School stands out for its exceptional mathematics proficiency, with 8th-grade students scoring well above the state average. However, the school's English Language Arts performance is more mixed, with some grades exceeding the state average and others falling behind. The school's 4-year graduation rate of 88.3% is slightly above the state average, but its chronic absenteeism rate of 21.6% is higher than the state norm.

Interestingly, the school's per-student spending of $15,724 and student-teacher ratio of 13.7 are both more favorable than the state averages, which may contribute to the school's overall performance. While the school has areas for potential improvement, such as addressing chronic absenteeism and enhancing English Language Arts instruction, it remains a generally strong-performing high school within the North Mahaska Community School District.

District Detail

 2163 135th St
New Sharon, IA 50207-0089

 (641) 637-4187

SchoolDigger Rank:
77th of 313 Iowa districts

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Grades served: PK, KG-12
Students: 576

Primary Schools: 1
Middle Schools: 0
High Schools: 1
Alternative Schools: 0
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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Iowa Department of Education.

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