Summary:
The Red Oak Community School District in Iowa has one high school, Red Oak Junior/Senior High School, which serves grades 9-12. The school has an enrollment of 474 students and a student-teacher ratio of 15.2 to 1.
Red Oak Junior/Senior High School performs relatively well in English Language Arts and Mathematics proficiency compared to the state averages, with 71.2% and 72.7% of 10th-grade students proficient, respectively. However, the school struggles in Science proficiency, with only 54.5% of 10th-grade students and 45.6% of 8th-grade students meeting proficiency standards, both below the state averages. The school's overall ranking has improved slightly in recent years, moving from 238th out of 338 Iowa high schools in 2021-2022 to 231st in 2022-2023, but it still falls in the bottom half of the state's high schools.
Socioeconomic factors may play a role in the school's performance, as 54.64% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Additionally, the school has a predominantly white student population, with only 12.03% of students identifying as non-white, which may be an area for the school district to consider addressing in terms of diversity and inclusion.
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