Lamoni Middle School

Lamoni Middle School is one of the one-room-style middle-grades schools in Lamoni, Iowa, one of the schools within Lamoni Comm School District, with 63 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 84% below the state mean of about 400.

Lamoni Comm School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 335 students. Lamoni Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Lamoni Middle School logs that White students make up the majority at 79%. The remainder looks like 14% Hispanic, 3% Asian. By comparison, Decatur County as a whole is about 92% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Lamoni Middle School has 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.2:1, putting Lamoni Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. About 62% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Lamoni Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.0%, the actual is 70.2%, a residual of +9.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Decatur County shows median household income runs about $59,044, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Lamoni Middle School is one of 6 public schools in Decatur County (combined enrollment of about 967 students).

Lamoni High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lamoni Middle School at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 58.8%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lamoni Middle School has contracted 18%, going from 77 students in 2018 to 63 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 8% to 14%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 today.

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