North-Linn Middle School

As a tiny intermediate school in Troy Mills, Iowa, North-Linn Middle School teaches 111 students from grades 6 through 8, operated by North Linn Comm School District. Enrollment runs roughly 72% smaller than the state mean of about 400.

North Linn Comm School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 550 students; North-Linn Middle School is among them.

On demographics, North-Linn Middle School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). Beyond that, the school lists 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 84% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, North-Linn Middle School has 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.2:1, putting North-Linn Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 23% of students at North-Linn Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Linn County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, North-Linn Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 80.2%, the actual is 83.3%, a residual of +3.1 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Linn County put the typical household earns roughly $77,649 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Linn County's 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,480 students), North-Linn Middle School is one campus in the mix.

North-Linn Senior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), North-Linn Middle School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 76.6%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at North-Linn Middle School has shrank 20%, going from 138 students in 2018 to 111 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.7:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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