Summary:
The zip code 50669 is home to a single high school, Gladbrook-Reinbeck Junior High & High School, which serves students in grades 7-12. This school has seen a decline in its statewide ranking and overall rating over the past three years, dropping from 169th out of 340 Iowa high schools in 2024-2025 to 284th out of 336 in 2022-2023, with its SchoolDigger rating decreasing from 3 stars to 1 star during this period.
Academically, the school's performance on the ISASP tests has been mixed, with proficiency rates ranging from 48.7% in 10th grade Science to 90.9% in 9th grade English Language Arts. Compared to state averages, the school's proficiency rates were above the state in some grade levels and subjects, but below the state in others. The school's four-year graduation rate for 2023-2024 was 88.3%, slightly below the state average, and its chronic absenteeism rate for the same year was relatively high at 21.6%.
Despite the school's declining performance, it allocates significant resources to education, with a per-student spending of $15,800 for the 2018-2019 school year and a low student-teacher ratio of 10.2 to 1. However, these resources do not appear to be translating into consistently strong student outcomes, suggesting that the school may need to re-evaluate its strategies and focus on addressing the specific factors contributing to the decline in its ranking and rating, as well as the high chronic absenteeism rate.
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