Summary:
The Villisca Community School District in Iowa has a single middle school, Southwest Valley Middle School, which serves students in grades 6-8. The school's performance has been mixed, with fluctuations in its statewide ranking over the past few years and varying proficiency rates on standardized tests.
Southwest Valley Middle School has seen its statewide ranking range from 165th out of 337 Iowa middle schools in the 2023-2024 school year to 224th out of 334 in 2022-2023 and 222nd out of 337 in 2021-2022. The school's 6th-grade students have performed significantly better than the state average in both English Language Arts and Mathematics, but the 8th-grade students have performed slightly below the state average in those subjects. The school's Science proficiency rate for 8th-grade students was also slightly below the state average.
The school has a predominantly white student population, with 93.29% of students identifying as white. Additionally, nearly half (48.32%) of the students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a significant portion of the student population comes from low-income households. The school's per-student spending was $13,094 in the 2018-2019 school year, and the student-to-teacher ratio was 10.5 in the 2022-2023 school year, suggesting a relatively low class size.
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