Gilbert Middle School

Gilbert Middle School, a mid-sized intermediate school in Gilbert, Iowa, one of the schools within Gilbert Comm School District, hosts 408 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

Gilbert Comm School District runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,682 students. Gilbert Middle School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Gilbert Middle School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%). Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Story County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Gilbert Middle School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 9% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Story County's rate of about 28%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Gilbert Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 87.3%, the actual is 93.4%, a residual of +6.1 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Story County put median household earnings sit near $69,685, roughly 55% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Story County runs 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,665 students), of which Gilbert Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Gilbert Intermediate School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Gilbert Middle School. On composite proficiency, Gilbert Middle School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 81.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Gilbert Middle School's enrollment has ticked up 7% since 2018, when it stood at 383 (now 408). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 89% to 85%. Class-load math has fell: from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 in 2025.

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