AGWSR Middle School

AGWSR Middle School is one of the one-room-style junior highs in Wellsburg, Iowa, overseen by AGWSR Comm School District, with 131 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 400 students per school, that is 67% smaller than typical.

AGWSR Comm School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 642 students; AGWSR Middle School is among them.

In terms of who attends, AGWSR Middle School lists that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 10% Hispanic.

On the resource side, AGWSR Middle School logs 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.2:1 average. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Grundy County (around 32%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Grundy County indicate the typical household earns roughly $87,205 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. AGWSR Middle School is one of 11 public schools in Grundy County (combined enrollment of about 2,334 students).

Nearest neighbor: AGWSR Elementary at Wellsburg, around 0.0 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 133 students in 2018 compared to 131 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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