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Enrollment
824
Middle
DISTRICT 704 · STATE 400
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORWALK COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 192124001274
Norwalk Middle School
200 Cherry Street, Norwalk, IA 50211 · (515) 981-0435 · Warren County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL824 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 43% of Iowa public middle schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Iowa public middle schools
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
54 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.3:1 · STATE 15.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
18%
149 students
DISTRICT 18% · STATE 41%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 280 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 282 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 262 | 32% |
Student demographics
25%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 26% · STATE 48% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Norwalk Middle School→Norwalk Senior High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Norwalk Comm School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
75.2%
IA avg 73.6% . +0.1pp since 2023
Math
84.8%
IA avg 70.9% . +1.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 85 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 75.2% | 84.8% |
| 2023-24 | 75.1% | 83.1% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: ISASP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
79.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
82.9%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 83% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Iowa's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Norwalk Middle School
Norwalk Middle School's state test result (79.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norwalk Middle School this school | 824 | 18.1% | 79.0% |
| Prairie Ridge Middle School Ankeny | 1,004 | 17.6% | 83.6% |
| Drexler Middle School Farley | 639 | 23.6% | 81.7% |
| Dallas Center-Grimes Middle School Dallas Center | 586 | 19.3% | 83.9% |
| DC-G Oak View Grimes | 537 | 20.5% | 85.8% |
| Waverly-Shell Rock Middle School Waverly | 681 | 24.8% | 81.9% |
Matched among Iowa middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Norwalk Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 79.0% | #79 of 224 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 84.8% | #38 of 224 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.2% | #144 of 224 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 824 | #23 of 246 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #128 of 180 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 24.6% | #120 of 180 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 18.1% | #218 of 237 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +14.3% | #18 of 61 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
824
+47 (+6%) vs 2020
+104% since 1990-91, when it was 403
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 15.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 824 | 53.7 | 15.3:1 | 18% (149) |
| 2023-24 | 804 | 51.3 | 15.7:1 | 18% (145) |
| 2022-23 | 787 | 51.8 | 15.2:1 | 21% (167) |
| 2020-21 | 777 | 50 | 15.5:1 | 20% (155) |
| 2017-18 | 721 | 41.7 | 17.3:1 | 18% (131) |
| 2015-16 | 598 | 43 | 13.9:1 | 18% (105) |
| 2010-11 | 593 | 41 | 14.5:1 | 18% (104) |
| 2000-01 | 490 | 34 | 14.4:1 | 11% (54) |
| 1990-91 | 403 | 26 | 15.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Norwalk Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 14% (721 to 824); teachers up 29% (41.7 to 53.7).
About Norwalk Middle School
Norwalk Middle School is a public large middle school in Norwalk, Iowa. It offers grades 6 through 8 and has 824 students enrolled. Middle schools in Iowa have about 400 students on average; enrollment here is 106% higher.
Norwalk Comm School District is responsible for 5 schools, Norwalk Middle School included, with 3,519 students in all.
White students are 86% of those enrolled at Norwalk Middle School. The remaining shares are 8% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 25, compared with 70 nationally.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 15.3:1. The school has 53.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. It is about the same as the 15.2:1 average for middle schools in Iowa. Federal data show 18% of students (149) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among Iowa public middle schools, Norwalk Middle School outscored 43%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
A school with Norwalk Middle School's lunch-eligibility share in Iowa is predicted to score 82.9%. Norwalk Middle School scores 79.0%, 3.9 points below that line.
The school's county is Warren County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $94,588 a year, roughly 33% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Warren County number 20, with about 10,473 students.
The closest school to Norwalk Middle School is Norwalk Senior High School, located about 0.2 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is 7. Its average proficiency rate of 79.0% is above the 61.2% average for nearby schools.
Norwalk Middle School is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.
Enrollment increased by 6% across 4 years, from 777 in 2020-21 to 824 in 2024-25.
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Warren County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
54,409
Census ACS
Median income
$94,588
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
20
10,473 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Norwalk Comm School District
- Norwalk Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,035 students
- Orchard Hills ElementaryElementary · 558 students
- Lakewood Elementary SchoolElementary · 554 students
- Oviatt Elementary SchoolElementary · 548 students
Other schools in Norwalk
- Norwalk Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,035 students
- Orchard Hills ElementaryElementary · 558 students
- Lakewood Elementary SchoolElementary · 554 students
- Oviatt Elementary SchoolElementary · 548 students
Other Norwalk Middle schools
One other US public school is named Norwalk Middle. Norwalk Middle School is the largest of the 2.
- Norwalk Middle SchoolNorwalk, OH · 332 students
Nearby schools
- Norwalk Senior High School0.2 mi · 1,035
- Oviatt Elementary School0.5 mi · 548
- Orchard Hills Elementary1.6 mi · 558
- Lakewood Elementary School2.0 mi · 554
- McCombs Middle School4.0 mi · 670
- Morris Elementary School4.1 mi · 519
Frequently asked questions
About Norwalk Middle SchoolHow large is Norwalk Middle School?
Norwalk Middle School enrolls approximately 824 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Norwalk Middle School serve?
Norwalk Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Norwalk Middle School?
Approximately 15.3:1 students per teacher at Norwalk Middle School.
What is the student diversity at Norwalk Middle School?
Student demographics at Norwalk Middle School are roughly 86% White, 8% Hispanic, 2% Black, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Norwalk Middle School in?
Norwalk Middle School is part of Norwalk Comm School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.