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Enrollment
502
Middle
DISTRICT 565 · STATE 400
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DENISON COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 190891000509
Denison Middle School
1201 North 16th Street, Denison, IA 51442 · (712) 263-9393 · Crawford County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL502 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 77% of Iowa public middle schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Iowa public middle schools
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 15.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
70%
352 students
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 41%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 160 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 168 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 174 | 35% |
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 48% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Denison Middle School→Denison High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Denison Comm School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
80.0%
IA avg 73.6% . +2.9pp since 2023
Math
77.0%
IA avg 70.9% . +3.7pp since 2023
What 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 77 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 80.0% | 77.0% |
| 2023-24 | 77.1% | 73.3% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: ISASP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
76.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.9%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+20.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 57% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 20 points, placing it in Iowa's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Denison Middle School
Denison Middle School's state test result (76.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denison Middle School this school | 502 | 70.1% | 76.8% |
| B R Miller Middle School Marshalltown | 736 | 73.0% | 54.8% |
| Lenihan Intermediate School Marshalltown | 655 | 78.3% | 53.6% |
| West Middle School Sioux City | 826 | 78.8% | 62.7% |
| Perry Middle School Perry | 370 | 57.3% | 72.3% |
| Robert Blue School Eagle Grove | 268 | 65.3% | 54.5% |
Matched among Iowa middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Denison Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 76.8% | #105 of 224 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 77.0% | #104 of 224 ▲ 20 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 80.0% | #95 of 224 ▲ 37 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 502 | #69 of 246 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.8:1 | #111 of 180 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.2% | #63 of 180 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 70.1% | #20 of 237 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.2% | #101 of 103 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
502
-44 (-8%) vs 2020
+25% since 1990-91, when it was 402
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
was 17.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 502 | 33.8 | 14.8:1 | 70% (352) |
| 2023-24 | 490 | 33.6 | 14.6:1 | 65% (320) |
| 2022-23 | 502 | 31.4 | 16.0:1 | 67% (334) |
| 2020-21 | 546 | 31 | 17.6:1 | 75% (411) |
| 2017-18 | 508 | 30.6 | 16.6:1 | 75% (380) |
| 2015-16 | 473 | 32 | 14.8:1 | 75% (356) |
| 2010-11 | 439 | 28 | 15.7:1 | 65% (287) |
| 2000-01 | 409 | 27 | 15.2:1 | 44% (178) |
| 1990-91 | 402 | 24 | 16.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Denison Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (508 to 502); teachers up 11% (30.6 to 33.8).
About Denison Middle School
In Denison, Iowa, Denison Middle School is a medium-sized middle school. It educates 502 students in grades 6 through 8. The typical figure for middle schools in Iowa is about 400 students.
Denison Comm School District serves 2,258 students across 4 schools.
By race and ethnicity, Denison Middle School is 66% Hispanic. It is also 26% White, 4% Black, and 3% Asian. For comparison, the population of Crawford County is roughly 31% Hispanic. By the diversity index, Denison Middle School comes in at 49%.
A ratio of 14.8:1 comes from the school's 33.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. Middle schools in Iowa average about 15.2:1, a similar figure. The lunch program counts 70% of students at Denison Middle School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That is 11 points above the 59% average for public schools in Crawford County.
Denison Middle School is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 77% of Iowa public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Denison Middle School is in the top 10% of Iowa schools on the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure. Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 56.9%. The school's actual rate is 76.8%, 20.0 points higher.
Denison Middle School is located in Crawford County, where median household income is about $67,027, roughly 18% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 11 public schools in Crawford County, with a combined enrollment of about 3,007.
The nearest other public school, Denison High School, is about 0.3 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is 3. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 70.6%; Denison Middle School's is 76.8%, ranking 2nd of 8.
The NCES locale for Denison Middle School is Town: Remote, which covers schools in a town far from an urbanized area.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment down 8%, from 546 to 502. The ratio of students to teachers went from 17.6:1 to 14.8:1 over the same years.
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Crawford County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
16,277
Census ACS
Median income
$67,027
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
18%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
11
3,007 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Denison Comm School District
- Denison High SchoolHigh · 777 students
- Denison Elementary SchoolElementary · 691 students
- Broadway Elementary SchoolElementary · 288 students
Other schools in Denison
- Denison High SchoolHigh · 777 students
- Denison Elementary SchoolElementary · 691 students
- Broadway Elementary SchoolElementary · 288 students
Other Denison Middle schools
One other US public school is named Denison Middle. Denison Middle School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- DENISON MIDDLE SCHOOLWINTER HAVEN, FL · 684 students
Nearby schools
- Denison High School0.3 mi · 777
- Denison Elementary School1.1 mi · 691
- Broadway Elementary School1.1 mi · 288
- Schleswig Elementary School9.9 mi · 75
- Schleswig Middle School9.9 mi · 51
- Boyer Valley Elementary School10.3 mi · 208
Frequently asked questions
About Denison Middle SchoolHow many students attend Denison Middle School?
Denison Middle School enrolls approximately 502 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Denison Middle School serve?
Denison Middle School serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Denison Middle School have?
Denison Middle School employs 34 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Denison Middle School?
Student demographics at Denison Middle School are roughly 26% White, 66% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Denison Middle School?
Denison Middle School is overseen by Denison Comm School District in Crawford County.
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