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How has Sergeant Bluff-Luton Middle School changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
400
Middle
DISTRICT 421 · STATE 400
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SERGEANT BLUFF-LUTON COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 192559001891
Sergeant Bluff-Luton Middle School
208 Port Neal Road, Sergeant Bluff, IA 51054 · (712) 943-4235 · Woodbury County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE22-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL400 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 96% of Iowa public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
19.1:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.4:1 · STATE 15.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
34%
135 students
DISTRICT 34% · STATE 41%
Community
4
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 | 133 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 134 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 133 | 33% |
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
Sergeant Bluff-Luton Middle School→Sergeant Bluff-Luton Senior High School
Based on grade levels within Sergeant Bluff-Luton Comm School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
86.6%
IA avg 73.6% . -3.5pp since 2023
Math
83.2%
IA avg 70.9% . +1.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 87 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 83 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 86.6% | 83.2% |
| 2023-24 | 90.1% | 81.4% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: ISASP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
85.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
75.1%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 85% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 75% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 10 points, placing it in Iowa's top 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 Sergeant Bluff-Luton Middle School
Sergeant Bluff-Luton Middle School's state test result (85.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sergeant Bluff-Luton Middle School this school | 400 | 33.8% | 85.4% |
| Boulder Peak Intermediate School Marion | 613 | 31.5% | 71.4% |
| Excelsior Middle School Marion | 594 | 28.5% | 81.1% |
| Monticello Middle School Monticello | 305 | 34.4% | 77.2% |
| Carlisle Middle School Carlisle | 518 | 30.1% | 70.1% |
| Carroll Middle School Carroll | 459 | 38.6% | 69.0% |
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 Sergeant Bluff-Luton Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Woodbury County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 85.4% | #26 of 224 | N/A |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 83.2% | #51 of 224 ▲ 5 | N/A |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 86.6% | #36 of 224 ▼ 20 | N/A |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 400 | #103 of 246 | #4 of 7 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.1:1 | #172 of 180 | N/A |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.2% | #70 of 180 | N/A |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 33.8% | #149 of 237 | #6 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +7.0% | #36 of 61 | N/A |
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
400
+4 (+1%) vs 2020
+17% since 1990-91, when it was 343
Student : Teacher
19.1:1
was 19.8:1
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 | 400 | 20.9 | 19.1:1 | 34% (135) |
| 2023-24 | 400 | 20.9 | 19.1:1 | 34% (137) |
| 2022-23 | 369 | 20.9 | 17.7:1 | 30% (110) |
| 2020-21 | 396 | 20 | 19.8:1 | 27% (107) |
| 2017-18 | 374 | 23.6 | 15.8:1 | 29% (108) |
| 2015-16 | 391 | 21 | 18.6:1 | 31% (120) |
| 2010-11 | 342 | 22 | 15.6:1 | 27% (93) |
| 2000-01 | 279 | 20 | 13.9:1 | 10% (27) |
| 1990-91 | 343 | 20 | 17.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sergeant Bluff-Luton Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 7% (374 to 400); teachers down 11% (23.6 to 20.9).
About Sergeant Bluff-Luton Middle School
Federal records list Sergeant Bluff-Luton Middle School as a middle school in Sergeant Bluff, Iowa. Enrollment is 400 students in 2024-25, and the school serves grades 6 through 8.
Sergeant Bluff-Luton Comm School District has 1,684 students spread across 4 schools.
Roughly 71% of students at Sergeant Bluff-Luton Middle School are White. Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 6% Black, 5% Pacific Islander, and 4% multiracial. The county population is about 71% White, within a few points of the school. Pick two students at random and there is a 47% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Dividing enrollment by its 20.9 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 19.1:1. That is 3.9 students per teacher above the 15.2:1 average for middle schools in Iowa. Sergeant Bluff-Luton Middle School reports 34% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The rate at public schools in Woodbury County averages 60%, higher than here.
allk12 grades Sergeant Bluff-Luton Middle School an A+. The grade compares the school only with Iowa public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
In Iowa, Sergeant Bluff-Luton Middle School is one of the top 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate on state tests of 85.4% compared with a predicted 75.1%.
Census Bureau estimates for Woodbury County show that the median household income is $73,658, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 24%, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. There are 37 public schools in Woodbury County, enrolling about 18,210 students in all.
Nearby, Sergeant Bluff-Luton Senior High School is less than a tenth of a mile away. Within five miles of Sergeant Bluff-Luton Middle School, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 73.8%; Sergeant Bluff-Luton Middle School's is 85.4%, ranking 2nd of 7.
NCES describes the area around Sergeant Bluff-Luton Middle School as Suburb: Mid-size, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
There was little change in enrollment from 2020-21 (396) to 2024-25 (400).
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Woodbury County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
106,247
Census ACS
Median income
$73,658
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
37
18,210 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Sergeant Bluff-Luton Comm School District
- Sergeant Bluff-Luton Senior High SchoolHigh · 552 students
- Sergeant Bluff-Luton Elementary SchoolElementary · 383 students
- Sergeant Bluff-Luton Primary SchoolElementary · 349 students
Other schools in Sergeant Bluff
- Sergeant Bluff-Luton Senior High SchoolHigh · 552 students
- Sergeant Bluff-Luton Elementary SchoolElementary · 383 students
- Sergeant Bluff-Luton Primary SchoolElementary · 349 students
Nearby schools
- Sergeant Bluff-Luton Senior High School0.1 mi · 552
- Sergeant Bluff-Luton Elementary School0.2 mi · 383
- Sergeant Bluff-Luton Primary School0.4 mi · 349
- DAKOTA CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.8 mi · 246
- Nodland Elementary School3.9 mi · 249
- East High School4.0 mi · 1,495
Frequently asked questions
About Sergeant Bluff-Luton Middle SchoolHow many students attend Sergeant Bluff-Luton Middle School?
Sergeant Bluff-Luton Middle School enrolls approximately 400 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Sergeant Bluff-Luton Middle School serve?
Sergeant Bluff-Luton Middle School serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Sergeant Bluff-Luton Middle School have?
Sergeant Bluff-Luton Middle School employs 21 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.1:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Sergeant Bluff-Luton Middle School?
At Sergeant Bluff-Luton Middle School, the student body is approximately 71% White, 11% Hispanic, 6% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Sergeant Bluff-Luton Middle School public or private?
Sergeant Bluff-Luton Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Sergeant Bluff-Luton Comm School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.