Lewis Central Middle School

Located at 3820 Harry Langdon Blvd., in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Lewis Central Middle School is an expansive middle-grades school that enrolls 720 students (grades 6 through 8), part of Lewis Central Comm School District. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 400 students each, so Lewis Central Middle School sits 80% above that benchmark.

Lewis Central Comm School District runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 3,143 students. Lewis Central Middle School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Lewis Central Middle School logs that 78% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 13% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 88% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.7:1. The state averages about 15.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 38% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Lewis Central Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.0%, the actual is 80.1%, a residual of +7.1 points.

Around the school, census data for Pottawattamie County shows median household earnings sit near $73,602, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Lewis Central Middle School is one of 35 public schools in Pottawattamie County (combined enrollment of about 15,270 students).

The closest other public school is Lewis Central Senior High School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lewis Central Middle School. On composite proficiency, Lewis Central Middle School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 65.5%.

Lewis Central Middle School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lewis Central Middle School has increased 4%, going from 691 students in 2018 to 720 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 84% to 78% across the same window.

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