Interstate 35 Middle School

Interstate 35 Middle School, a tight-knit junior high in Truro, Iowa, overseen by Interstate 35 Comm School District, enrolls 228 students, covering grades 5 through 8. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 400 students each, so Interstate 35 Middle School sits 43% below that benchmark.

Interstate 35 Comm School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,071 students; Interstate 35 Middle School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Interstate 35 Middle School records that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Madison County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Interstate 35 Middle School has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.5:1. The state averages around 15.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 26% of students at Interstate 35 Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Interstate 35 Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 79.0%; this one delivers 80.8%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Madison County indicate median household earnings sit near $90,855, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. In all, Madison County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,355 students), of which Interstate 35 Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Interstate 35 High School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Interstate 35 Middle School. On composite proficiency, Interstate 35 Middle School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 73.1%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.