High · Iowa
WEST Academy Alternative School
AlternativeFree meals for allWEST Academy Alternative School, a public high school in Newton, Iowa: grades 10–12, 51 students, 8.8 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Newton 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
- 51
- Teachers (FTE)
- 5.8
- Students per teacher
- 8.8
- Grades
- 10–12
- High
Fewer students per teacher than 99% of high schools in Iowa
Median 13.9 · 346 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 87% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Smaller than 98% of high schools in Iowa
Median 295 · 351 schools compared
Smaller than 89% 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 10–12
- Type
- District school · Alternative
- Instruction
- Some virtual classes
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Distant town
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Newton Comm School District.
Location
- Address
- 1302 1st Avenue West, Newton, IA 50208
- Phone
- (641)792-0335
- City or town
- Newton
- County
- Jasper 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 | 806 | 16.6 | |
| 7–12 | 287 | 10.8 | |
| 6–12 | 262 | — | |
| 9–12 | 348 | 13.8 | |
| 9–12 | 160 | 14.7 | |
| 9–12 | 512 | 16.8 |
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).
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