Dallas Center-Grimes Middle School

As a moderately sized intermediate school in Dallas Center, Iowa, Dallas Center-Grimes Middle School instructs 586 students from grades 5 through 6, run under Dallas Center-Grimes Comm School District. Enrollment runs roughly 47% larger than the state mean of about 400.

Dallas Center-Grimes Comm School District runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,743 students. Dallas Center-Grimes Middle School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Dallas Center-Grimes Middle School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). The remainder looks like 6% Black, 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.2:1, putting Dallas Center-Grimes Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 19% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Dallas Center-Grimes Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 82.3%, the actual is 83.9%, a residual of +1.6 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Dallas County put median household earnings sit near $102,379, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Dallas Center-Grimes Middle School is one of 41 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 22,938 students).

Dallas Center Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Dallas Center-Grimes Middle School. On composite proficiency, Dallas Center-Grimes Middle School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 83.9%.

Dallas Center-Grimes Middle School operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Dallas Center-Grimes Middle School's enrollment has rose 33% since 2018, when it stood at 440 (now 586). White enrollment moved from 91% to 84% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.