East Buchanan Middle School

Located at 414 5th St North, in Winthrop, Iowa, East Buchanan Middle School is a micro-enrollment middle-grades school that instructs 75 students (grades 7 through 8), one of the schools within East Buchanan Comm School District. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 400 students each, so East Buchanan Middle School sits 81% below that benchmark.

East Buchanan Comm School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 567 students. East Buchanan Middle School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, East Buchanan Middle School reports that 97% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Compared to Buchanan County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, East Buchanan Middle School has 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.2:1 average. Roughly 33% of students at East Buchanan Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), East Buchanan Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 75.3%, the actual is 77.2%, a residual of +1.9 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Buchanan County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $78,236 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Buchanan County's 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,231 students), East Buchanan Middle School is one campus in the mix.

East Buchanan Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), East Buchanan Middle School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 72.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Over the past 7-year window. East Buchanan Middle School's enrollment has contracted 43% since 2018, when it stood at 132 (now 75). Over the same period, the White share grew from 91% to 97%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 22.5:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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