High · Iowa
Alternative School
AlternativeAlternative School, a public high school in Mason City, Iowa: grades 9–12, 91 students, 15.4 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Mason City Comm School District.
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 91
- Teachers (FTE)
- 5.9
- Students per teacher
- 15.4
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
More students per teacher than 67% of high schools in Iowa
Median 13.9 · 346 schools compared
More students per teacher than 57% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Smaller than 94% of high schools in Iowa
Median 295 · 351 schools compared
Smaller than 82% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
State test results
No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- District school · Alternative
- Instruction
- Some virtual classes
- Area
- Remote town
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Mason City Comm School District.
Location
- Address
- 19 N. Illinois Ave., Mason City, IA 50401
- Phone
- (641)421-4426
- City or town
- Mason City
- County
- Cerro Gordo County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Mason City Virtual AcademyFully virtual | 8–12 | 88 | 58.7 |
| 9–12 | 891 | 16.6 | |
| 9–12 | 236 | 14.7 | |
| 9–12 | 461 | 15.4 | |
| 7–12 | 173 | 9.4 | |
| 9–12 | 191 | 10.7 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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