Wood Middle School

Wood Middle School is a middle school of high-enrollment scale in Davenport, Iowa, operated by Davenport Comm School District, works with 629 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 57% bigger than the typical public school in Iowa, which averages around 400 students.

Davenport Comm School District comprises 27 schools with combined enrollment of 12,812 students; Wood Middle School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Wood Middle School logs that 47% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 25% Black, 13% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Scott County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Wood Middle School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 65.5%; this one comes in at 54.8%, -10.8 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, Scott County reports that the typical household earns roughly $78,277 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Wood Middle School is one of 53 public schools in Scott County (combined enrollment of about 26,100 students).

Harrison Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wood Middle School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 51.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wood Middle School has shrank 11%, going from 706 students in 2018 to 629 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.

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