Decorah Middle School

Decorah Middle School operates as a middle-of-the-pack junior high in Decorah, Iowa, overseen by Decorah Community School District. Current enrollment sits at 432 students spanning grades 5 through 8.

Decorah Community School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,522 students; Decorah Middle School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Decorah Middle School shows that nearly all students (88%) are White. Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. The state averages around 15.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 26% of students at Decorah Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Decorah Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 78.9%, the actual is 84.2%, a residual of +5.4 points.

In the broader community, census data for Winneshiek County shows median household earnings sit near $79,066, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Winneshiek County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,434 students), of which Decorah Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Carrie Lee Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Decorah Middle School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 81.7%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 16%: 517 students in 2018 compared to 432 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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