Riverbend Middle School

Located at 1124 Union St., in Iowa Falls, Iowa, Riverbend Middle School is a low-enrollment middle school that enrolls 257 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by Iowa Falls Comm School District. Enrollment runs roughly 36% below the state mean of about 400.

Iowa Falls Comm School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,228 students; Riverbend Middle School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Riverbend Middle School logs that nearly all students (84%) are White; the rest looks like 14% Hispanic.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.2:1 average. An estimated 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Riverbend Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 71.3%; this one delivers 80.5%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Hardin County put the typical household earns roughly $65,069 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Hardin County runs 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,073 students), of which Riverbend Middle School is one.

Rock Run Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Riverbend Middle School at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 70.7%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Riverbend Middle School has ticked up 30%, going from 198 students in 2018 to 257 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 8% to 14% over that span.

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