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Enrollment
1,081
Middle
DISTRICT 689 · STATE 400
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DUBUQUE COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 190948000976
Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School
2001 Radford Rd, Dubuque, IA 52002 · (563) 552-5000 · Dubuque County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL1,081 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 55% 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.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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
14.3:1
75 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.7:1 · STATE 15.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
33%
360 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 41%
Community
6
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 | 352 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 374 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 355 | 33% |
Student demographics
33%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · 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
Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
78.6%
IA avg 73.6% . +0.2pp since 2023
Math
75.6%
IA avg 70.9% . -1.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 78.6% | 75.6% |
| 2023-24 | 78.4% | 77.3% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: ISASP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
77.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
75.3%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 75% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Iowa's top nor bottom 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 Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School
Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School's state test result (77.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School this school | 1,081 | 33.3% | 77.3% |
| Boulder Peak Intermediate School Marion | 613 | 31.5% | 71.4% |
| Indianola Middle School Indianola | 818 | 30.2% | 77.5% |
| Excelsior Middle School Marion | 594 | 28.5% | 81.1% |
| Parkview Middle School Ankeny | 865 | 27.3% | 85.9% |
| Clear Creek Amana Middle School Tiffin | 702 | 27.6% | 78.5% |
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 Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 77.3% | #97 of 224 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 75.6% | #110 of 224 ▼ 19 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 78.6% | #112 of 224 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,081 | #7 of 246 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #96 of 180 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 33.4% | #89 of 180 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 33.3% | #153 of 237 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.3% | #99 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
1,081
-110 (-9%) vs 2020
-7% since 2010-11, when it was 1,157
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 15.7:1
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 | 1,081 | 75.4 | 14.3:1 | 33% (360) |
| 2023-24 | 1,063 | 76 | 14.0:1 | 31% (327) |
| 2022-23 | 1,093 | 78.2 | 14.0:1 | 31% (339) |
| 2020-21 | 1,191 | 76 | 15.7:1 | 28% (334) |
| 2017-18 | 1,095 | 73.3 | 14.9:1 | 24% (262) |
| 2015-16 | 1,154 | 76 | 15.2:1 | 23% (270) |
| 2010-11 | 1,157 | 70 | 16.5:1 | 22% (258) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (1,095 to 1,081); teachers up 3% (73.3 to 75.4).
About Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School
Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School is a public middle school run by Dubuque Comm School District in Dubuque, Iowa. In all, 1,081 students attend the school in grades 6 through 8. It has 170% more students than the average for middle schools in Iowa (about 400).
Dubuque Comm School District has 19 schools; together they serve 9,843 students.
Of every 100 students at Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School, about 81 are White. Other students are 5% multiracial, 5% Black, 4% Hispanic, and 3% Asian. A diversity index of 33% means there is a 33% chance two randomly chosen students at Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School are from different groups.
Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School reported 75.4 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 14.3:1. Middle schools in Iowa average 15.2:1, 0.8 more students per teacher than here. There are 360 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 33% of enrollment.
On the allk12 Grade, Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School lands at B, ahead of 55% of Iowa public middle schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School would score about 75.3%. It scores 77.3%, 2.0 points above that figure.
American Community Survey estimates for Dubuque County show that the median household earns about $77,630 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 33%, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Dubuque County has 26 public schools with about 13,164 students, including Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School.
Carver Elementary School is about 0.1 miles from Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Of the 7 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School is 3rd on average proficiency.
Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000, a location NCES labels City: Small.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School had a net loss of 110 students, or 9%. The school's ratio dropped from 15.7:1 to 14.3:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Dubuque County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
99,030
Census ACS
Median income
$77,630
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
26
13,164 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Dubuque Comm School District
- Hempstead High SchoolHigh · 1,499 students
- Dubuque Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,490 students
- George Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 584 students
- Eisenhower Elementary SchoolElementary · 568 students
- Carver Elementary SchoolElementary · 499 students
- John Kennedy Elementary SchoolElementary · 493 students
Other schools in Dubuque
- Hempstead High SchoolHigh · 1,499 students
- Dubuque Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,490 students
- George Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 584 students
- Eisenhower Elementary SchoolElementary · 568 students
- Carver Elementary SchoolElementary · 499 students
- John Kennedy Elementary SchoolElementary · 493 students
Nearby schools
- Carver Elementary School0.1 mi · 499
- Hempstead High School1.0 mi · 1,499
- John Kennedy Elementary School1.6 mi · 493
- Seedlings Preschool Center1.7 mi · 70
- Hoover Elementary School1.7 mi · 292
- Eisenhower Elementary School2.1 mi · 568
Frequently asked questions
About Eleanor Roosevelt Middle SchoolHow large is Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School?
Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School enrolls approximately 1,081 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School serve?
Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School have?
Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School employs 75 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School?
Student demographics at Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School are roughly 81% White, 4% Hispanic, 5% Black, 3% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School in?
Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School is part of Dubuque Comm School District.
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