Bondurant-Farrar Junior High

Located at 1201 Grant Street, in Bondurant, Iowa, Bondurant-Farrar Junior High is an average-sized intermediate school that serves 398 students (grades 7 through 8), run under Bondurant-Farrar Comm School District.

Bondurant-Farrar Junior High is one of 5 schools operated by Bondurant-Farrar Comm School District, a district that educates 2,824 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Bondurant-Farrar Junior High reports that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 4% Black, 2% Asian.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.2:1, putting Bondurant-Farrar Junior High tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 20% of students at Bondurant-Farrar Junior High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Polk County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bondurant-Farrar Junior High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 82.0%, the actual is 77.4%, a residual of -4.7 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Polk County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $83,576 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Bondurant-Farrar Junior High is one of 137 public schools in Polk County (combined enrollment of about 77,436 students).

The closest other public school is Bondurant-Farrar High School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bondurant-Farrar Junior High. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bondurant-Farrar Junior High ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 74.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.