Camanche Middle School

Camanche Middle School is a small junior high in Camanche, Iowa, operated by Camanche Comm School District. The school caters to 256 students in grades 5 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 400 students per school, that is 36% leaner than typical.

Camanche Comm School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 923 students; Camanche Middle School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Camanche Middle School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). Beyond that, the school lists 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Camanche Middle School records 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.1:1. The state averages around 15.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 49% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Camanche Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.5%, the actual is 68.2%, a residual of +0.7 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Clinton County indicate median household earnings sit near $66,981, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Clinton County's 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,129 students), Camanche Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Camanche High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Camanche Middle School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Camanche Middle School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 66.6%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Camanche Middle School's enrollment has shrank 16% since 2018, when it stood at 303 (now 256). Class-load math has tightened: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

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