Summary:
The high-school listing for Cerro Gordo CUSD 100 contains one school, Cerro Gordo Junior and Senior High School, serving grades 6–12 with 228 students. In 2025–2026, graduation was 100% compared with 90% statewide, and chronic absenteeism was 13% compared with 24% statewide. The most important finding is a pronounced subject split: all-grades IAR English Language Arts was 21 points above the state, while mathematics was 16 points below it.
Cerro Gordo Junior and Senior High School is the only school in this area listing, so there is no local top-versus-bottom comparison. Its clearest strength is ELA: the 2025–2026 all-grades result was 78%, versus 56% statewide. Math is the main concern, at 24% versus 40% statewide; within the school, ELA was 54 points higher than math. The math result varies by assessment and grade, however: the school was above the state on grade 9 PreACT and grade 11 ACT math, even as its all-grades IAR result was well below the state.
Recent results show ELA holding steady at a high level while the IAR math result fell. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA rose from 77% to 78%, but its state advantage narrowed by 2 points; math fell from 35% to 24%, and its gap below the state widened by 12 points. Grade 9 PreACT science also rose from 49% to 69% across those years, a 21-point increase. Separately, SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking rose from 47 in 2023–2024 to 78 in 2024–2025, then dipped to 74 in 2025–2026. For context, the school’s student-teacher ratio was 11.2 in 2024–2025, and 41% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year.
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