Grinnell Community Middle School

Grinnell Community Middle School is an intermediate school of medium-sized scale in Grinnell, Iowa, one of the schools within Grinnell-Newburg Comm School District, teacheing 420 students in grades 5 through 8.

Grinnell-Newburg Comm School District runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,534 students. Grinnell Community Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Grinnell Community Middle School logs that nearly all students (85%) are White. Beyond that, the school records 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Grinnell Community Middle School has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.2:1, putting Grinnell Community Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 35% of students at Grinnell Community Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Grinnell Community Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 74.7%, the actual is 72.8%, a residual of -1.9 points.

Across the wider county, Poweshiek County reports that median household earnings sit near $67,391, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Poweshiek County's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,566 students), Grinnell Community Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Davis Elementary School, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Grinnell Community Middle School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 82.0%.

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

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Grinnell Community Middle School has contracted 11%, going from 471 students in 2018 to 420 in 2025.

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