Knoxville Middle School

Knoxville Middle School is an intermediate school of small scale in Knoxville, Iowa, one of the schools within Knoxville Comm School District, works with 323 students in grades 6 through 8.

Knoxville Comm School District runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,664 students. Knoxville Middle School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Knoxville Middle School reports that nearly all students (86%) are White. The remainder breaks down as 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Marion County as a whole is about 94% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.2:1 average. Around 52% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Marion County's rate of about 29%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Knoxville Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.1%, the actual is 67.2%, a residual of +1.1 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Marion County indicate median household income runs about $78,680, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Marion County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,571 students), of which Knoxville Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Knoxville High School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Knoxville Middle School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 67.2%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 17%: 387 students in 2018 compared to 323 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Knoxville Middle School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.