Public Schools in Iowa
1,326 schools · 328 districts · 504,666 students
Largest Schools in Iowa
School data sourced from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) via the Common Core of Data.
Lincoln High School
Des Moines
Southeast Polk High School
Pleasant Hill
Linn-Mar High School
Marion
Valley High School
West Des Moines
East High School
Des Moines
Roosevelt High School
Des Moines
Johnston Senior High School
Johnston
John F Kennedy High School
Cedar Rapids
Pleasant Valley High School
Bettendorf
West High School
Waterloo
Frequently Asked Questions
Iowa has 1,326 public schools across 328 districts, serving 504,666 students.
The largest school in Iowa is Lincoln High School with 2,403 students. Iowa has 1,326 public schools overall.
The average proficiency rate is 53%. Proficiency rates measure the percentage of students meeting state standards on standardized assessments, as reported by EDFacts.
All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data for enrollment and school characteristics, and EDFacts for proficiency rates and graduation rates.
School data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments. No synthetic scores are used.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. public schools and districts. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.