Grundy Center Middle School

Grundy Center Middle School, an intimate middle school in Grundy Center, Iowa, part of Grundy Center Comm School District, serves 219 students, covering grades 5 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 45% below the state mean of about 400.

Grundy Center Comm School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 743 students; Grundy Center Middle School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Grundy Center Middle School reports that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 3% Hispanic. Compared to Grundy County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Grundy Center Middle School has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.2:1 average. Around 32% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Grundy Center Middle School ranks in the top 10% of Iowa public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 76.2%; Grundy Center Middle School posts 88.0%, +11.8 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, Grundy County reports that the typical household earns roughly $87,205 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Grundy County runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,334 students), of which Grundy Center Middle School is one.

Grundy Center High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Grundy Center Middle School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 79.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Grundy Center Middle School's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 219 (now 219). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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