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Enrollment
445
Middle
DISTRICT 422 · STATE 400
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BONDURANT-FARRAR COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 190507002125
Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School
300 Garfield St. SW, Bondurant, IA 50035 · (515) 967-3711 · Polk County
GRADES 05–06MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL445 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 18% of Iowa public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Iowa public middle schools
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 15.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
16%
73 students
DISTRICT 19% · STATE 41%
Community
4
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 5 | 216 | 49% |
| Grade 6 | 229 | 51% |
Student demographics
34%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 32% · STATE 48% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Bondurant-Farrar Comm School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
76.0%
IA avg 73.6% . -1.0pp since 2023
Math
71.9%
IA avg 70.9% . +1.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 76.0% | 71.9% |
| 2023-24 | 77.0% | 70.2% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: ISASP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of IA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
72.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
83.7%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 84% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School
Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School's state test result (72.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School this school | 445 | 16.4% | 72.4% |
| Bondurant-Farrar Junior High Bondurant | 398 | 19.8% | 77.4% |
| Jefferson Intermediate Pella | 494 | 16.6% | 81.2% |
| Pella Middle School Pella | 375 | 15.7% | 88.8% |
| DC-G Oak View Grimes | 537 | 20.5% | 85.8% |
| Dallas Center-Grimes Middle School Dallas Center | 586 | 19.3% | 83.9% |
Matched among Iowa middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Polk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.4% | #143 of 224 | #10 of 21 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.9% | #144 of 224 ▲ 1 | #10 of 21 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 76.0% | #134 of 224 ▲ 2 | #10 of 21 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 445 | #85 of 246 | #19 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #51 of 180 | #2 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.1% | #88 of 180 | #18 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 16.4% | #223 of 237 | #20 of 21 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.9% | #74 of 103 | #12 of 14 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
445
-134 (-23%) vs 2020
+7% since 2010-11, when it was 417
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 15.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 445 | 33.2 | 13.4:1 | 16% (73) |
| 2023-24 | 428 | 32.4 | 13.2:1 | 21% (89) |
| 2022-23 | 380 | 30.5 | 12.5:1 | 19% (72) |
| 2020-21 | 579 | 38 | 15.2:1 | 20% (114) |
| 2017-18 | 483 | 27.7 | 17.4:1 | 19% (94) |
| 2015-16 | 417 | 27 | 15.4:1 | 19% (81) |
| 2010-11 | 417 | 23 | 18.1:1 | 24% (99) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (483 to 445); teachers up 20% (27.7 to 33.2).
About Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School
Among the schools in Bondurant, Iowa, is Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School, a medium-sized middle school. It covers grades 5 through 6, with a total enrollment of 445 students.
The district, Bondurant-Farrar Comm School District, operates 5 schools serving 2,824 students.
About 80% of the student body at Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School is White. Smaller groups are 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 4% Black. Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School's diversity index is 34%, against a US figure of 70%.
Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School employs 33.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 13.4:1. This ratio sits 1.7 below the 15.2:1 average for middle schools in Iowa. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 16% in 2024-25. That is lower than the 49% average for public schools in Polk County.
Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 18% of Iowa public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School is a bottom-10% school in Iowa on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 72.4% against a predicted 83.7%.
Within Polk County, the median household income is $83,576, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Besides Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School, Polk County has 136 other public schools.
Anderson Elementary School is located less than a tenth of a mile from Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School. The five-mile area around Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School holds at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 75.0%, higher than Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School's 72.4%.
Federal data place Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment has fallen by 134 students since 2020-21, to 445. The number of students per teacher fell from 15.2 to 13.4 over 4 years.
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Polk County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
503,175
Census ACS
Median income
$83,576
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
137
77,436 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bondurant-Farrar Comm School District
- Bondurant-Farrar High SchoolHigh · 849 students
- Morris ElementaryElementary · 601 students
- Anderson Elementary SchoolElementary · 531 students
- Bondurant-Farrar Junior HighMiddle · 398 students
Other schools in Bondurant
- Bondurant-Farrar High SchoolHigh · 849 students
- Morris ElementaryElementary · 601 students
- Anderson Elementary SchoolElementary · 531 students
- Bondurant-Farrar Junior HighMiddle · 398 students
Nearby schools
- Anderson Elementary School0.1 mi · 531
- Morris Elementary0.2 mi · 601
- Bondurant-Farrar High School1.0 mi · 849
- Bondurant-Farrar Junior High1.1 mi · 398
- Altoona Elementary3.5 mi · 429
- Willowbrook Elementary3.5 mi · 523
Frequently asked questions
About Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School?
Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School enrolls approximately 445 students in grades 05-06.
What grades does Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School serve?
Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School serves grades 05-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School is approximately 13.4:1 (33 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School?
At Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School, the student body is approximately 80% White, 9% Hispanic, 4% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School public or private?
Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Bondurant-Farrar Comm School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.