Enrollment
331
Middle
DISTRICT 390 · STATE 400
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VINTON-SHELLSBURG COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 192931001680
Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School
212 W. 15th St., Vinton, IA 52349 · (319) 436-4728 · Benton County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL331 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 91% of Iowa public middle schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+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
14.4:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.7:1 · STATE 15.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
52%
173 students
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 41%
Community
0
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 | 110 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 115 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 106 | 32% |
Student demographics
17%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 16% · 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
Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School→Vinton-Shellsburg High School
Feeds from
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ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
79.9%
IA avg 73.6% . -3.1pp since 2023
Math
84.8%
IA avg 70.9% . +4.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 85 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 | 79.9% | 84.8% |
| 2023-24 | 83.0% | 80.0% |
% 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
82.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.8%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 82% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 66% 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 16 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 Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School
Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School's state test result (82.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School this school | 331 | 52.3% | 82.0% |
| Knoxville Middle School Knoxville | 323 | 51.7% | 67.2% |
| Oelwein Middle School Oelwein | 350 | 52.6% | 53.9% |
| Creston Middle School Creston | 259 | 54.4% | 73.2% |
| Keokuk Middle School Keokuk | 381 | 53.3% | 71.2% |
| Howar Middle School Centerville | 298 | 56.0% | 65.5% |
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 Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 82.0% | #51 of 224 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 84.8% | #39 of 224 ▲ 34 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 79.9% | #99 of 224 ▼ 22 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 331 | #131 of 246 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #101 of 180 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 16.9% | #154 of 180 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 52.3% | #56 of 237 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.5% | #76 of 103 |
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
331
+17 (+5%) vs 2020
+20% since 1990-91, when it was 276
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 14.9:1
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 | 331 | 22.9 | 14.4:1 | 52% (173) |
| 2023-24 | 337 | 20.9 | 16.2:1 | 49% (165) |
| 2022-23 | 318 | 21.3 | 15.0:1 | 42% (135) |
| 2020-21 | 314 | 21 | 14.9:1 | 42% (133) |
| 2017-18 | 358 | 22.5 | 15.9:1 | 37% (133) |
| 2015-16 | 346 | 24 | 14.4:1 | 33% (114) |
| 2010-11 | 376 | 25 | 15.0:1 | 39% (146) |
| 2000-01 | 290 | 23 | 12.6:1 | 27% (78) |
| 1990-91 | 276 | 18 | 15.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (358 to 331); teachers up 2% (22.5 to 22.9).
About Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School
A low-enrollment middle-grades school in Vinton, Iowa, Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School is part of Vinton-Shellsburg Comm School District. It reports enrollment of 331 students in grades 6 through 8.
Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School is one of the 4 schools that make up Vinton-Shellsburg Comm School District (1,558 students in total).
A large majority of enrollment at Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School is White, at 91%. After that, the student body is 5% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. Among Benton County residents, the White share is about 95%. The diversity index for Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School is 17%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School is 14.4:1, based on 22.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for middle schools in Iowa, 15.2:1, is higher. Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School counts 52% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Benton County, the average eligibility rate is 37%.
Among Iowa public middle schools, Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School outscored 91%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 82.0%. Schools with its free or reduced-price lunch share in Iowa are predicted to post 65.8%, so the school is 16.1 points ahead and in the state's top 10%.
For the population of Benton County, the median household earns about $86,962 a year, about 26% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 4%. Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School shares Benton County with 11 other public schools.
Of the public schools around it, Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School is closest to Tilford Elementary School, about 0.4 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is 2. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School ranks 2nd of 7 on average proficiency.
For locale, NCES codes Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School as Town: Distant.
Enrollment figures show a rise of 17 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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Benton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
25,724
Census ACS
Median income
$86,962
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
12
3,919 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Vinton-Shellsburg Comm School District
- Tilford Elementary SchoolElementary · 544 students
- Vinton-Shellsburg High SchoolHigh · 414 students
- Shellsburg Elementary SchoolElementary · 269 students
Other schools in Vinton
- Tilford Elementary SchoolElementary · 544 students
- Vinton-Shellsburg High SchoolHigh · 414 students
Nearby schools
- Tilford Elementary School0.4 mi · 544
- Vinton-Shellsburg High School0.5 mi · 414
- Shellsburg Elementary School8.9 mi · 269
- Center Point-Urbana Intermediate School9.2 mi · 275
- Benton Community Senior High School10.4 mi · 473
- Benton Community Middle School10.4 mi · 235
Frequently asked questions
About Vinton-Shellsburg Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School?
Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School enrolls approximately 331 students in grades 06-08.
Is Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School?
Approximately 14.4:1 students per teacher at Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School.
How diverse is Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School?
Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School reports a student body of 91% White, 5% Hispanic, 1% Black, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School?
Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School is overseen by Vinton-Shellsburg Comm School District in Benton County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.