Summary:
The Camanche Community School District in Iowa has one middle school, Camanche Middle School, which serves grades 6-8. While the school has some areas of strength, such as higher-than-average proficiency rates in certain subjects and grade levels, it also faces challenges that may be impacting its overall performance and ranking within the state.
Camanche Middle School's statewide ranking has fluctuated in recent years, ranging from 163rd out of 334 Iowa middle schools in 2022-2023 to 221st out of 344 in 2024-2025. The school's performance on the Iowa Statewide Assessment of Student Progress (ISASP) is mixed, with some grade levels and subjects performing above the state average, while others are below. For example, in 2024-2025, 8th-grade students had an 85.1% proficiency rate in English Language Arts, which is higher than the state average of 80.2%, but 6th-grade students had a 60% proficiency rate in the same subject, which is lower than the state average of 72.8%.
Camanche Middle School also faces challenges related to socioeconomic factors, with a relatively high percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch (42.49% in 2023-2024) and a significantly higher chronic absenteeism rate (21.6% in 2023-2024) compared to the state average. While the school has a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 14.9 to 1 in 2023-2024 and a higher-than-average per-student spending of $12,520 for the 2018-2019 school year, these resources do not appear to be translating into consistently strong academic performance across all grade levels and subject areas.
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