Summary:
The 50216 zip code in Iowa has only one middle school, Panorama Middle School, which serves students in grades 6-8. The school's performance has declined in recent years, dropping from 152nd out of 334 Iowa middle schools in 2022-2023 to 296th out of 344 in 2024-2025. While the school's English Language Arts performance is mixed, with 6th and 8th-grade students performing below the state average and 7th-grade students performing above, the school's Mathematics performance is significantly below the state average across all grade levels.
Panorama Middle School serves a population with a relatively high percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch at 42.18% in the 2023-2024 school year. The school's chronic absenteeism rate is also significantly higher than the state average at 21.6% in the same year. Despite these challenges, the school's per-student spending for the 2018-2019 school year was above the state average at $13,934, and the student-teacher ratio is slightly higher than the state average at 16.6.
Overall, Panorama Community School District and its lone middle school, Panorama Middle School, face several areas of concern, including declining performance, uneven academic achievement, high poverty levels, and chronic absenteeism. The school may need to implement targeted strategies and interventions to address these issues and improve student outcomes.
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