Lynnville-Sully Middle School

Lynnville-Sully Middle School is a middle-grades school of tiny scale in Sully, Iowa, one of the schools within Lynnville-Sully Comm School District, educateing 121 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 70% leaner than the state mean of about 400.

Across the 3 schools in Lynnville-Sully Comm School District (505 students total), Lynnville-Sully Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Lynnville-Sully Middle School lists that nearly all students (94%) are White; the rest consists of 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Jasper County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.2:1, putting Lynnville-Sully Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 22% of students at Lynnville-Sully Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Jasper County (around 40%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lynnville-Sully Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 80.8%, the actual is 88.3%, a residual of +7.6 points.

In the broader community, Jasper County reports that median household income runs about $71,311, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Lynnville-Sully Middle School is one of 18 public schools in Jasper County (combined enrollment of about 5,668 students).

Nearest neighbor: Lynnville-Sully High School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Lynnville-Sully Middle School. On composite proficiency, Lynnville-Sully Middle School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 81.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 121 students in 2018 compared to 121 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 98% to 94% over that span.

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