Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School

Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School is an intermediate school of roomy scale in Dubuque, Iowa, overseen by Dubuque Comm School District, enrolling 1,081 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 170% above the typical public school in Iowa, which averages around 400 students.

Dubuque Comm School District runs 19 schools in total, collectively educating 9,843 students. Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%). Beyond that, the school records 5% multiracial, 5% Black, 4% Hispanic, 3% Asian.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 75 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.2:1 average. An estimated 33% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Eleanor Roosevelt 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 77.3%, a residual of +2.0 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Dubuque County) reports that median household income runs about $77,630, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Dubuque County runs 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,164 students), of which Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School is one.

Carver Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 72.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 1,095 (now 1,081). Over the same period, the White share declined from 87% to 81%.

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