Public school / Middle
Dallas Center-Grimes Middle School
Grimes, Iowa
- NCES ID
- 190852000453
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Dallas Center-Grimes Middle School is a public middle school in Grimes, Iowa, run by Dallas Center-Grimes Comm School District. It enrols 527 students — the 34121st 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
527
Teachers
35.0
Students per teacher
15.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
18.8%
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 Dallas Center-Grimes 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.
- 1Dallas Center-Grimes High School978 students
- 2Heritage Elementary586 students
- 3Dc-G Oak View578 students
- 4Dallas Center-Grimes Middle School527 students
- 5South Prairie Elementary452 students
- 6North Ridge Elementary427 students
- 7Dallas Center Elementary199 students
- Enrollment+47.2%
- Teachers+52.2%
- Students per teacher+6.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−52.4%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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