Central Lee Middle School

Central Lee Middle School is one of the mid-sized 6-8 campuss in Donnellson, Iowa, part of Central Lee Comm School District, with 394 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 8.

Within Central Lee Comm School District, which oversees 3 schools and 1,311 students, Central Lee Middle School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Central Lee Middle School records that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 3% Hispanic. Compared to Lee County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.2:1 average. Roughly 39% of students at Central Lee Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Lee County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Central Lee Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 72.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 75.1%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Lee County indicate the typical household earns roughly $62,382 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Central Lee Middle School is one of 13 public schools in Lee County (combined enrollment of about 6,014 students).

The closest other public school is Central Lee Elementary School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Central Lee Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Central Lee Middle School at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 66.9%.

Central Lee Middle School operates from a low-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Central Lee Middle School's enrollment has expanded 53% since 2018, when it stood at 257 (now 394). The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 21.2:1 today.

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