AHSTW Intermediate School

AHSTW Intermediate School, a small middle school in Avoca, Iowa, operated by AHSTW Comm School District, works with 270 students, covering grades 4 through 8. That puts it 33% smaller than the typical public school in Iowa, which averages around 400 students.

Within AHSTW Comm School District, which oversees 3 schools and 755 students, AHSTW Intermediate School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, AHSTW Intermediate School shows that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 8% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Pottawattamie County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 36% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, AHSTW Intermediate School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 73.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 80.9%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Pottawattamie County) records that median household earnings sit near $73,602, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Pottawattamie County's 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,270 students), AHSTW Intermediate School is one campus in the mix.

AHSTW Primary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around AHSTW Intermediate School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), AHSTW Intermediate School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 76.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

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