Summary:
The 50106 zip code is home to a single public middle school, East Marshall Middle School, which serves grades 6-8 with a total enrollment of 153 students. The school is part of the East Marshall Community School District, which is ranked 194 out of 313 districts in Iowa and has a 2-star rating from SchoolDigger.
East Marshall Middle School has maintained relatively strong academic performance, with test scores consistently above the state averages in both English Language Arts and Mathematics. In the 2024-2025 school year, 84% of 8th-grade students were proficient or better in ELA, compared to the state average of 80.2%. However, the school's chronic absenteeism rate of 21.6% is higher than the state average, which could negatively impact student learning and academic outcomes. The school also serves a relatively high percentage of economically disadvantaged students, with 35.29% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in the 2023-2024 school year.
The school district's spending per student for the 2018-2019 school year was $11,474, which is higher than the national average. However, the school's student-teacher ratio of 17.6 is slightly higher than the recommended ratio of 15:1 for middle schools, suggesting a potential need to allocate more resources towards hiring additional teachers to maintain smaller class sizes and better support student learning.
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