West Lyon Junior High School

Located at 1787 182nd Street, in Inwood, Iowa, West Lyon Junior High School is an one-room-style middle-grades school that works with 128 students (grades 7 through 8), one of the schools within West Lyon Comm School District. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 400 students each, so West Lyon Junior High School sits 68% smaller than that benchmark.

West Lyon Comm School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 973 students. West Lyon Junior High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, West Lyon Junior High School reports that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 9% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.2:1, putting West Lyon Junior High School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 29% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, West Lyon Junior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 77.5%, the actual is 83.2%, a residual of +5.7 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Lyon County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,746 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Lyon County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,157 students), of which West Lyon Junior High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: West Lyon High School, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), West Lyon Junior High School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 70.2%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 18%: 157 students in 2018 compared to 128 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 95% to 88%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 78.5:1 in 2018 to 21.5:1 in 2025.

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