Central DeWitt Intermediate School
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Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 78% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 75% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Iowa's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Central DeWitt Intermediate School
Central DeWitt Intermediate School operates as a cozy intermediate school in DeWitt, Iowa, one of the schools within Central DeWitt School District. Current enrollment sits at 311 students spanning grades 4 through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 22% leaner than the state mean of about 400.
Central DeWitt Intermediate School is one of 4 schools operated by Central DeWitt School District, a district that enrolls 1,552 students overall.
On the student-mix side, Central DeWitt Intermediate School records that nearly all students (90%) are White. Beyond that, the school records 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 2% Black. Compared to Clinton County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
On the resource side, Central DeWitt Intermediate School shows 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.2:1 average. Around 33% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Clinton County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Central DeWitt Intermediate School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 75.4%, the actual is 77.6%, a residual of +2.2 points.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Clinton County) shows that median household income runs about $66,981, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Central DeWitt Intermediate School is one of 18 public schools in Clinton County (combined enrollment of about 7,129 students).
The closest other public school is Central DeWitt Middle School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Central DeWitt Intermediate School. On composite proficiency, Central DeWitt Intermediate School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 78.7%.
Central DeWitt Intermediate School operates from a town-center location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Central DeWitt Intermediate School's enrollment has fell 3% since 2018, when it stood at 319 (now 311). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.
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Related schools
- Central DeWitt High SchoolHigh · 533 students
- Ekstrand Elementary SchoolElementary · 464 students
- Central DeWitt Middle SchoolMiddle · 244 students
- Central DeWitt Middle School0.1 mi · 244
- Central DeWitt High School0.1 mi · 533
- Ekstrand Elementary School1.2 mi · 464
- Alan Shepard Elementary School9.3 mi · 467
- Neil Armstrong Elementary School9.4 mi · 369
- John Glenn Elementary School11.7 mi · 179