Jefferson Intermediate

Located at 801 E 13th St, in Pella, Iowa, Jefferson Intermediate is a moderately sized intermediate school that instructs 494 students (grades 4 through 6), operated by Pella Comm School District. Enrollment runs roughly 24% above the state mean of about 400.

Pella Comm School District runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,462 students. Jefferson Intermediate is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Jefferson Intermediate logs that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian, 2% Pacific Islander.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.2:1, putting Jefferson Intermediate tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 17% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Marion County runs at roughly 29%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Jefferson Intermediate sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 83.6%; this one delivers 81.2%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Marion County) reports that median household earnings sit near $78,680, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Jefferson Intermediate is one of 17 public schools in Marion County (combined enrollment of about 5,571 students).

Pella Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Jefferson Intermediate comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 82.1%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Jefferson Intermediate's enrollment has contracted 11% since 2018, when it stood at 558 (now 494). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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