High · Iowa
Thomas Jefferson High School
Free meals for allThomas Jefferson High School, a public high school in Council Bluffs, Iowa: grades 9–12, 1,146 students, 17.4 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Council Bluffs 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
- 1,146
- Teachers (FTE)
- 66.0
- Students per teacher
- 17.4
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
More students per teacher than 87% of high schools in Iowa
Median 13.9 · 346 schools compared
More students per teacher than 70% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 89% of high schools in Iowa
Median 295 · 351 schools compared
Larger than 78% 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 · Regular
- Instruction
- Some virtual classes
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Large suburb
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Council Bluffs Comm School District.
Location
- Address
- 2501 W Broadway, Council Bluffs, IA 51501
- Phone
- (712)328-6493
- City or town
- Council Bluffs
- County
- Pottawattamie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9–12 | 17 | 0.8 | |
Central High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 2,587 | 20.7 |
Abraham Lincoln High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,333 | 15.3 |
Gateway To College ProgramAlternative | 9–12 | 0 | — |
Blackburn Alternative ProgramAlternativeFree meals for all | 9–12 | 0 | — |
Accelere ProgramAlternative | 9–12 | 0 | — |
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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