Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School

Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School is a mid-tier 6-8 campus in Bondurant, Iowa, part of Bondurant-Farrar Comm School District. The school instructs 445 students in grades 5 through 6.

Within Bondurant-Farrar Comm School District, which oversees 5 schools and 2,824 students, Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%). Beyond that, the school logs 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Black.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.2:1 average. Around 16% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Polk County's rate of about 49%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School is in the bottom 10% of Iowa public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 83.7%; Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School posts 72.4%, -11.3 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Polk County) records that median household income runs about $83,576, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Polk County runs 137 public schools (combined enrollment of about 77,436 students), of which Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Anderson Elementary School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 75.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School has declined 8%, going from 483 students in 2018 to 445 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 89% to 80% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

On allk12, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.