Norwalk Middle School

Norwalk Middle School is an intermediate school of large scale in Norwalk, Iowa, run under Norwalk Comm School District, hosting 824 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 106% above the state mean of about 400.

Norwalk Middle School is one of 5 schools operated by Norwalk Comm School District, a district that enrolls 3,519 students overall.

On demographics, Norwalk Middle School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%). The remainder comes out to 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 18% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Norwalk Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 82.9%, the actual is 79.0%, a residual of -3.9 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Warren County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $94,588 per year, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Across Warren County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,473 students), Norwalk Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Norwalk Senior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Norwalk Middle School at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 61.2%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 14%: 721 students in 2018 compared to 824 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.

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