DC-G Oak View

DC-G Oak View is a middle school of reasonably sized scale in Grimes, Iowa, overseen by Dallas Center-Grimes Comm School District, enrolling 537 students in grades 7 through 8. That puts it 34% bigger than the typical public school in Iowa, which averages around 400 students.

Dallas Center-Grimes Comm School District comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 3,743 students; DC-G Oak View is among them.

Looking at the student body, DC-G Oak View reports that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 5% Black, 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Dallas County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 20% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DC-G Oak View performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 81.7%, the actual is 85.8%, a residual of +4.1 points.

In the broader community, census data for Dallas County shows the typical household earns roughly $102,379 per year, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Dallas County's 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,938 students), DC-G Oak View is one campus in the mix.

Dallas Center-Grimes High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DC-G Oak View ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 82.4%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. DC-G Oak View's enrollment has grew 29% since 2018, when it stood at 416 (now 537). The White share of enrollment declined from 90% to 86% over that span.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.