Keokuk Middle School

As a mid-sized middle school in Keokuk, Iowa, Keokuk Middle School enrolls 381 students from grades 6 through 8, operated by Keokuk Comm School District.

Keokuk Comm School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,720 students; Keokuk Middle School is among them.

Demographically, Keokuk Middle School lists that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 8% multiracial, 3% Black, 3% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Keokuk Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 65.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 71.2%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Lee County put the typical household earns roughly $62,382 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Lee County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,014 students), Keokuk Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Keokuk High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Keokuk Middle School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 51.2%.

Keokuk Middle School operates from a town-based location.

Over the past 7-year window. Keokuk Middle School's enrollment has contracted 5% since 2018, when it stood at 401 (now 381).

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