Odebolt Arthur Battle Creek Ida Grove Middle School

Odebolt Arthur Battle Creek Ida Grove Middle School is a 6-8 campus of low-enrollment scale in Odebolt, Iowa, overseen by Odebolt Arthur Battle Creek Ida Grove Comm School District, serveing 186 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 54% below the state mean of about 400.

Within Odebolt Arthur Battle Creek Ida Grove Comm School District, which oversees 4 schools and 934 students, Odebolt Arthur Battle Creek Ida Grove Middle School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Odebolt Arthur Battle Creek Ida Grove Middle School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). Beyond that, the school logs 5% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Sac County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.2:1, putting Odebolt Arthur Battle Creek Ida Grove Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Sac County) reports that median household earnings sit near $73,838, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Sac County runs 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,362 students), of which Odebolt Arthur Battle Creek Ida Grove Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Odebolt Elementary-Odebolt, roughly 0.0 miles away.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Odebolt Arthur Battle Creek Ida Grove Middle School's enrollment has decreased 18% since 2018, when it stood at 228 (now 186). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 22.8:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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