Waverly-Shell Rock Middle School

Waverly-Shell Rock Middle School operates as a big 6-8 campus in Waverly, Iowa, run under Waverly-Shell Rock Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 681 students spanning grades 5 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 70% bigger than the state mean of about 400.

Waverly-Shell Rock Middle School is one of 9 schools operated by Waverly-Shell Rock Comm School District, a district that hosts 2,722 students overall.

On demographics, Waverly-Shell Rock Middle School records that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 4% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Waverly-Shell Rock Middle School has 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.2:1 average. Around 25% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Waverly-Shell Rock Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 79.5%; this one delivers 81.9%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Bremer County shows the typical household earns roughly $86,784 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Waverly-Shell Rock Middle School is one of 20 public schools in Bremer County (combined enrollment of about 5,346 students).

Greenview Alternative School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Waverly-Shell Rock Middle School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 85.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 697 students in 2018 compared to 681 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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