Peet Junior High School

Peet Junior High School, a substantial middle-grades school in Cedar Falls, Iowa, part of Cedar Falls Comm School District, caters to 695 students, covering grades 7 through 9. Enrollment runs roughly 74% larger than the state mean of about 400.

Cedar Falls Comm School District runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 5,853 students. Peet Junior High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Peet Junior High School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%). Other groups include 6% multiracial, 5% Asian, 4% Black, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 20% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Black Hawk County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Peet Junior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 81.8%, the actual is 84.1%, a residual of +2.3 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Black Hawk County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,417 per year, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Peet Junior High School is one of 35 public schools in Black Hawk County (combined enrollment of about 18,224 students).

Nearest neighbor: Southdale Elementary School, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Peet Junior High School at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 81.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 13%: 613 students in 2018 compared to 695 in 2025.

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