Summary:
The Dubuque Community School District in Iowa is home to three high schools: Hempstead High School, Dubuque Senior High School, and Dubuque Online School. While Hempstead High and Dubuque Senior High have relatively similar performance, with both schools ranking in the 200s out of Iowa high schools, the Dubuque Online School stands out as the lowest-performing school in the district.
Dubuque Online School ranks 329 out of 338 Iowa high schools and has the lowest test scores across the board, with only 45.5% of 10th graders proficient or better in English Language Arts and just 27.3% proficient or better in Mathematics. This is significantly below the district and state averages. In contrast, Hempstead High School and Dubuque Senior High School score around the district average on most test metrics, with Dubuque Senior High School having a slight edge in English Language Arts and Mathematics proficiency rates.
The data also reveals that Hempstead High has the highest free/reduced lunch rate at 38.07%, followed by Dubuque Senior at 36.38% and Dubuque Online at 23.56%. Additionally, Dubuque Online School has the highest student-teacher ratio at 41.6, while Dubuque Senior High has the lowest at 10.5. These factors may contribute to the performance differences observed between the schools in the Dubuque Community School District.
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