Akron Westfield Middle School

Akron Westfield Middle School operates as a rural-scale middle-grades school in Akron, Iowa, part of Akron Westfield Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 130 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 400 students per school, that is 68% leaner than typical.

Akron Westfield Comm School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 576 students. Akron Westfield Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Akron Westfield Middle School logs that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 10% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Akron Westfield Middle School lists 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.2:1 average. An estimated 28% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Akron Westfield Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 78.1%, the actual is 86.0%, a residual of +7.9 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Plymouth County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,251 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Plymouth County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,219 students), Akron Westfield Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Akron Westfield Elementary School, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Akron Westfield Middle School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 66.0%.

Akron Westfield Middle School operates from an outlying location.

Looking at the recent track record. Akron Westfield Middle School's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 133 (now 130). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 5% to 10%. Class-load math has tightened: from 31.1:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 in 2025.

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