Summary:
The Urbandale Community School District in Iowa has one middle school, Urbandale Middle School, which serves grades 6-8. The school has seen a decline in its statewide ranking over the past three years, dropping from 197th out of 334 Iowa middle schools in 2022-2023 to 240th out of 344 in 2024-2025, with a 2-star rating from SchoolDigger.
Urbandale Middle School has a chronic absenteeism rate of 21.6%, which is relatively high. Academically, the school performs slightly below the state average in English Language Arts and Mathematics across grades 6-8, with 8th-grade ELA being the strongest area. The school has a 37.05% free and reduced-price lunch rate, indicating a relatively high percentage of economically disadvantaged students. Despite these challenges, the school has a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 15.2 and per-student spending of $8,993 in 2018-2019.
While Urbandale Middle School is the only middle school in the district, the data suggests that the school is facing some performance challenges, particularly in terms of its declining statewide ranking and high chronic absenteeism rate. Addressing these issues, as well as supporting the needs of the school's economically disadvantaged student population, could be key priorities for the district in order to improve student outcomes and the overall performance of the school.
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