Anamosa Middle School

Anamosa Middle School is an intermediate school of small scale in Anamosa, Iowa, run under Anamosa Comm School District, enrolling 335 students in grades 5 through 8.

Anamosa Comm School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,116 students. Anamosa Middle School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Anamosa Middle School logs that nearly all students (89%) are White. Beyond that, the school shows 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Anamosa Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 76.1%; this one delivers 72.7%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Jones County put median household income runs about $73,531, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Jones County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,693 students), of which Anamosa Middle School is one.

Anamosa High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Anamosa Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Anamosa Middle School at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 74.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 14%: 389 students in 2018 compared to 335 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 94% to 89% over that span.

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