Public school / High
West Academy Alternative School
Newton, Iowa
- NCES ID
- 192061002052
- District
- Newton Comm School District
- School type
- Alternative
- Title I
- Not designated
West Academy Alternative School is a public high school in Newton, Iowa, run by Newton Comm School District. It enrols 61 students — the 90694th largest of 1,337 public schools in Iowa.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
61
Teachers
6.0
Students per teacher
10.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
80.3%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Newton Comm School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Berg Middle School841 students
- 2Newton Senior High School818 students
- 3Thomas Jefferson Elementary School325 students
- 4Woodrow Wilson Elementary School272 students
- 5Aurora Heights Elementary School268 students
- 6Emerson Hough Elementary School224 students
- 7West Academy Alternative School61 students
- Enrollment−83.0%
- Teachers−73.9%
- Students per teacher−28.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+103.3%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory