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The highest-poverty public middle schools in Polk County, Iowa

21 public middle schools in Polk County, Iowa appear in this ranking of the highest-poverty public middle schools, ranked by share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Hiatt Middle School leads the list at 93.4%, against a median of 51.9% across the ranked schools.

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Schools ranked

Polk County, Iowa

Top % FRL

93.4%

Median % FRL

51.9%

HIGHEST POVERTY · POLK COUNTY, IOWA

#	School	City	District	Level	Students	% FRL
1	Hiatt Middle School	Des Moines, IA	Des Moines Independent Comm School District	Middle	488	93.4%
2	Harding Middle School	Des Moines, IA	Des Moines Independent Comm School District	Middle	603	88.6%
3	Weeks Middle School	Des Moines, IA	Des Moines Independent Comm School District	Middle	688	87.4%
4	Goodrell Middle School	Des Moines, IA	Des Moines Independent Comm School District	Middle	511	84.7%
5	McCombs Middle School	Des Moines, IA	Des Moines Independent Comm School District	Middle	670	83.3%
6	Hoyt Middle School	Des Moines, IA	Des Moines Independent Comm School District	Middle	455	82.6%
7	Callanan Middle School	Des Moines, IA	Des Moines Independent Comm School District	Middle	553	79.9%
8	Meredith Middle School	Des Moines, IA	Des Moines Independent Comm School District	Middle	662	79.8%
9	Brody Middle School	Des Moines, IA	Des Moines Independent Comm School District	Middle	641	71.3%
10	Woodside Middle School	Des Moines, IA	Saydel Comm School District	Middle	396	56.6%
11	Indian Hills Junior High School	Clive, IA	West Des Moines Comm School District	Middle	661	51.9%
12	Stilwell Junior High School	West Des Moines, IA	West Des Moines Comm School District	Middle	645	47.0%
13	Merrill Middle School	Des Moines, IA	Des Moines Independent Comm School District	Middle	657	43.7%
14	Urbandale Middle School	Urbandale, IA	Urbandale Comm School District	Middle	892	41.4%
15	Southeast Polk Middle School	Altoona, IA	Southeast Polk Comm School District	Middle	1,112	41.0%
16	Parkview Middle School	Ankeny, IA	Ankeny Comm School District	Middle	865	27.3%
17	Summit Middle School	Johnston, IA	Johnston Comm School District	Middle	1,118	26.0%
18	Bondurant-Farrar Junior High	Bondurant, IA	Bondurant-Farrar Comm School District	Middle	398	19.8%
19	Prairie Ridge Middle School	Ankeny, IA	Ankeny Comm School District	Middle	1,004	17.6%
20	Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School	Bondurant, IA	Bondurant-Farrar Comm School District	Middle	445	16.4%
21	North Polk Middle School	Alleman, IA	North Polk Comm School District	Middle	504	8.5%

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