Lansing Middle School

Lansing Middle School is a middle school of one-room-style scale in Lansing, Iowa, run under Eastern Allamakee Comm School District, caters to 75 students in grades 5 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 400 students per school, that is 81% leaner than typical.

Eastern Allamakee Comm School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 309 students; Lansing Middle School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Lansing Middle School lists that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 3% multiracial.

On the resource side, On paper, Lansing Middle School has 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 37.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.2:1, putting Lansing Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 43% 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 lower than Allamakee County's rate of about 53%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lansing Middle School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 70.6%; this one delivers 85.0%, a residual of +14.4 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Allamakee County shows median household income runs about $70,694, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Allamakee County's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,183 students), Lansing Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Kee High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lansing Middle School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 67.6%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 19%: 63 students in 2018 compared to 75 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 100% to 96%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 37.9:1 today.

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