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Enrollment
430
Middle
DISTRICT 538 · STATE 400
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DAVENPORT COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 190858000464
Frank L Smart Middle School
1934 W 5th St, Davenport, IA 52802 · (563) 445-5100 · Scott County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL430 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 0% of Iowa public middle schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
11.7:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 15.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
296 students
DISTRICT 53% · 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 | 154 | 36% |
| Grade 7 | 150 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 126 | 29% |
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · 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
34.9%
IA avg 73.6% . -3.9pp since 2023
Math
27.2%
IA avg 70.9% . +3.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 34.9% | 27.2% |
| 2023-24 | 38.8% | 23.4% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: ISASP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of IA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
30.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.5%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-26.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 58% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Frank L Smart Middle School
Frank L Smart Middle School's state test result (30.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frank L Smart Middle School this school | 430 | 68.8% | 30.9% |
| Wilson Middle School Cedar Rapids | 422 | 78.0% | 44.2% |
| McKinley STEAM Academy Cedar Rapids | 426 | 60.6% | 58.1% |
| Roosevelt Creative Corridor Business Academy Cedar Rapids | 484 | 71.1% | 53.1% |
| Williams Middle School Davenport | 577 | 56.8% | 44.0% |
| Bunger Middle School Evansdale | 440 | 74.5% | 58.3% |
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 Frank L Smart Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Scott County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.9% | #224 of 224 | #8 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.2% | #224 of 224 no change | #8 of 8 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.9% | #224 of 224 ▼ 1 | #8 of 8 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 430 | #89 of 246 | #7 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.7:1 | #9 of 180 | #2 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.7% | #12 of 180 | #2 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 68.8% | #21 of 237 | #1 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.5% | #4 of 103 | #1 of 6 |
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
430
+46 (+12%) vs 2020
-36% since 1990-91, when it was 672
Student : Teacher
11.7:1
was 11.3:1
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 | 430 | 36.8 | 11.7:1 | 69% (296) |
| 2023-24 | 273 | 26.3 | 10.4:1 | 73% (199) |
| 2022-23 | 313 | 26.5 | 11.8:1 | 71% (221) |
| 2020-21 | 384 | 34 | 11.3:1 | 78% (298) |
| 2017-18 | 628 | 55.6 | 11.3:1 | 88% (550) |
| 2015-16 | 519 | 40 | 13.0:1 | 86% (448) |
| 2010-11 | 524 | 34 | 15.4:1 | 74% (387) |
| 2000-01 | 695 | 53 | 13.1:1 | 58% (404) |
| 1990-91 | 672 | 50 | 13.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Frank L Smart Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 32% (628 to 430); teachers down 34% (55.6 to 36.8).
About Frank L Smart Middle School
Frank L Smart Middle School is a mid-sized middle-grades school in Davenport, Iowa. It had 430 students in 2024-25, spanning grades 6 through 8.
Davenport Comm School District is the local district for Frank L Smart Middle School. It runs 27 schools with 12,812 students.
About 39% of students at Frank L Smart Middle School are White, the largest single group. Other reported shares: 31% Black, 20% Hispanic, and 9% multiracial. Scott County's residents are about 79% White, 40 points above the school's share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 71, compared with 70 nationally.
Its ratio of 11.7:1 is based on 36.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for middle schools in Iowa is 15.2:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. In all, 69% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 38% for public schools in Scott County.
Among Iowa public middle schools, Frank L Smart Middle School outscored 0%, which works out to an F on the allk12 Grade.
Frank L Smart Middle School scores 26.6 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results: 30.9% actual versus 57.5% predicted. That puts it in the bottom 10% of Iowa schools on BeatsExpectations.
In the wider Scott County area, the median household earns about $78,277 a year, about 37% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Frank L Smart Middle School shares Scott County with 52 other public schools.
Children's Village West, about 0.5 miles away, is the closest 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, Frank L Smart Middle School is 6th on average proficiency.
Federal data place Frank L Smart Middle School in the City: Mid-size locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment figures show a rise of 46 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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Scott County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
174,608
Census ACS
Median income
$78,277
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
53
26,100 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Davenport Comm School District
- West High SchoolHigh · 1,304 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 1,288 students
- North High SchoolHigh · 1,190 students
- Sudlow Middle SchoolMiddle · 734 students
- Wood Middle SchoolMiddle · 629 students
- Williams Middle SchoolMiddle · 577 students
Other schools in Davenport
- West High SchoolHigh · 1,304 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 1,288 students
- North High SchoolHigh · 1,190 students
- Sudlow Middle SchoolMiddle · 734 students
- Wood Middle SchoolMiddle · 629 students
- Williams Middle SchoolMiddle · 577 students
Nearby schools
- Children's Village West0.5 mi · 296
- Jefferson Elementary School0.9 mi · 384
- Hayes Elementary School1.2 mi · 377
- Children's Village Hayes1.2 mi · 15
- West High School1.4 mi · 1,304
- Wilson Elementary School1.4 mi · 507
Frequently asked questions
About Frank L Smart Middle SchoolHow many students attend Frank L Smart Middle School?
Frank L Smart Middle School enrolls approximately 430 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Frank L Smart Middle School serve?
Frank L Smart Middle School serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Frank L Smart Middle School have?
Frank L Smart Middle School employs 37 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.7:1.
How diverse is Frank L Smart Middle School?
Frank L Smart Middle School reports a student body of 39% White, 20% Hispanic, 31% Black, 0% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Frank L Smart Middle School in?
Frank L Smart Middle School is part of Davenport Comm School District.
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