Public school / Middle
Alta-Aurelia Middle Sch
Aurelia, Iowa
- NCES ID
- 190348002252
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Alta-Aurelia Middle Sch is a public middle school in Aurelia, Iowa, run by Alta-Aurelia Comm School District. It enrols 231 students — the 74570th largest of 1,337 public schools in Iowa.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
231
Teachers
17.0
Students per teacher
13.6
Free or reduced-price lunch
45.5%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Alta-Aurelia Comm School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Alta Elementary School237 students
- 2Alta-Aurelia Middle Sch231 students
- 3Alta-Aurelia High School206 students
- 4Aurelia Elementary School163 students
- Enrollment−35.5%
- Teachers−26.1%
- Students per teacher−4.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+15.2%
Where this sits
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory