Atlantic Middle School

Atlantic Middle School operates as a mid-sized middle school in Atlantic, Iowa, one of the schools within Atlantic Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 349 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Within Atlantic Comm School District, which oversees 4 schools and 1,587 students, Atlantic Middle School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Atlantic Middle School shows that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder breaks down as 7% Pacific Islander, 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 95% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 44% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Atlantic Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 69.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 76.4%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Cass County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $63,013 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Cass County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,957 students), Atlantic Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Schuler Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Atlantic Middle School at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 70.4%.

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

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 10%: 317 students in 2018 compared to 349 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 91% to 84% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 in 2025.

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