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Enrollment
1,269
Middle
DISTRICT 1,102 · STATE 400
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·IOWA CITY COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 191470000901
Southeast Middle School
2501 Bradford Dr, Iowa City, IA 52240 · (319) 688-1070 · Johnson County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,269 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 29% of Iowa public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats 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
15.3:1
83 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 15.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
47%
602 students
DISTRICT 45% · STATE 41%
Community
6
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 | 442 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 398 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 429 | 34% |
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · 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
Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
73.1%
IA avg 73.6% . -3.2pp since 2023
Math
68.8%
IA avg 70.9% . +4.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 73.1% | 68.8% |
| 2023-24 | 76.3% | 64.1% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: ISASP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
69.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.2%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Iowa's top nor bottom 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 Southeast Middle School
Southeast Middle School's state test result (69.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southeast Middle School this school | 1,269 | 47.4% | 69.3% |
| Sudlow Middle School Davenport | 734 | 48.8% | 60.7% |
| Wood Middle School Davenport | 629 | 52.8% | 54.8% |
| Merrill Middle School Des Moines | 657 | 43.7% | 72.2% |
| Williams Middle School Davenport | 577 | 56.8% | 44.0% |
| Stilwell Junior High School West Des Moines | 645 | 47.0% | 73.2% |
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 Southeast Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 69.3% | #162 of 224 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 68.8% | #169 of 224 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 73.1% | #159 of 224 ▼ 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,269 | #1 of 246 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #126 of 180 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.0% | #24 of 180 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 47.4% | #79 of 237 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +67.6% | #3 of 61 |
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
1,269
+453 (+56%) vs 2020
+71% since 1990-91, when it was 740
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 16.0:1
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 | 1,269 | 82.9 | 15.3:1 | 47% (602) |
| 2023-24 | 853 | 55.9 | 15.3:1 | 50% (423) |
| 2022-23 | 812 | 54.9 | 14.8:1 | 50% (403) |
| 2020-21 | 816 | 51 | 16.0:1 | 45% (369) |
| 2017-18 | 757 | 48.6 | 15.6:1 | 38% (286) |
| 2015-16 | 793 | 49 | 16.2:1 | 48% (383) |
| 2010-11 | 661 | 44 | 15.0:1 | 35% (233) |
| 2000-01 | 737 | 49 | 15.0:1 | 15% (114) |
| 1990-91 | 740 | 29 | 25.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Southeast Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 68% (757 to 1,269); teachers up 70% (48.6 to 82.9).
About Southeast Middle School
This page covers Southeast Middle School, a high-enrollment middle-grades school in Iowa City, Iowa. The school offers grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 1,269 students. That puts enrollment 217% larger than the 400-student average for middle schools in Iowa.
Iowa City Comm School District is the district for Southeast Middle School. It has 29 schools and 15,111 students.
No group is above 50% at Southeast Middle School; the largest is White, at 50%. After that, the student body is 22% Black, 19% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Among all residents of Johnson County, the White share is about 76%. The diversity index for Southeast Middle School is 66%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
With 82.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 15.3:1. That is in line with the 15.2:1 average for middle schools in Iowa. Roughly 47% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Johnson County averages 37%, lower than here.
Among Iowa public middle schools, Southeast Middle School outscored 29%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
Schools in Iowa with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 68.2%. Southeast Middle School scores 69.3%.
Census data for Johnson County show median household income comes to about $74,935, about 55% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. There are 43 public schools in the county, enrolling about 20,019, Southeast Middle School among them.
Southeast Middle School's nearest public school is Elizabeth Tate Alt. High School (about 0.2 miles). There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. On state test proficiency, Southeast Middle School ranks 3rd in a group of 8 nearby schools.
NCES describes the area around Southeast Middle School as City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Federal records list enrollment at Southeast Middle School as 816 in 2020-21 and 1,269 in 2024-25. A change that size can reflect a shift in the grades the school serves as well as a change in students.
The discussion board for Southeast Middle School is open to topics like athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Johnson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
156,639
Census ACS
Median income
$74,935
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
55%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
43
20,019 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Iowa City Comm School District
- Iowa City High SchoolHigh · 1,666 students
- West Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,514 students
- Liberty High SchoolHigh · 1,286 students
- Northwest Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,113 students
- North Central Middle SchoolMiddle · 925 students
- Penn Elementary SchoolElementary · 512 students
Other schools in Iowa City
- Iowa City High SchoolHigh · 1,666 students
- West Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,514 students
- Herbert Hoover Elementary SchoolElementary · 464 students
- Weber ElementaryElementary · 456 students
- Ernest Horn Elementary SchoolElementary · 453 students
- Alexander ElementaryElementary · 436 students
Other Southeast Middle schools
9 other US public schools in 9 states are named Southeast Middle. Southeast Middle School is the largest of the 10.
- Southeast MiddleSouth Gate, CA · 1,215 students
- Southeast Middle SchoolBaton Rouge, LA · 826 students
- Southeast MiddleKernersville, NC · 733 students
- Southeast MiddleSalisbury, NC · 628 students
- Southeast Middle SchoolOklahoma City, OK · 596 students
Nearby schools
- Elizabeth Tate Alt. High School0.2 mi · 180
- Robert Lucas Elementary School0.6 mi · 245
- Mark Twain Elementary0.8 mi · 213
- Grant Wood Elementary School0.8 mi · 306
- Iowa City High School1.0 mi · 1,666
- Longfellow Elementary School1.1 mi · 325
Frequently asked questions
About Southeast Middle SchoolHow large is Southeast Middle School?
Southeast Middle School enrolls approximately 1,269 students in grades 06-08.
Is Southeast Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Southeast Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Southeast Middle School have?
Southeast Middle School employs 83 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Southeast Middle School?
Student demographics at Southeast Middle School are roughly 50% White, 19% Hispanic, 22% Black, 2% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Southeast Middle School?
Southeast Middle School is overseen by Iowa City Comm School District in Johnson County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.