Earlham Middle School

Set in Earlham, Iowa, Earlham Middle School is an one-room-style junior high, overseen by Earlham Comm School District. It works with 142 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 400 students each, so Earlham Middle School sits 65% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in Earlham Comm School District (659 students total), Earlham Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Earlham Middle School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). The remainder looks like 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Madison County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 13% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Madison County's rate of about 25%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Earlham Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 85.3%, the actual is 79.3%, a residual of -5.9 points.

Around the school, census data for Madison County shows median household income runs about $90,855, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Across Madison County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,355 students), Earlham Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Earlham Elementary School, around 0.0 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Earlham Middle School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 85.4%.

Earlham Middle School operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Earlham Middle School has climbed 67%, going from 85 students in 2018 to 142 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 today.

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