Forest City Middle School
Forest City, IA · Middle School · Grades 5-8
Forest City Middle School is a middle school in Forest City, IA with 330 students enrolled and a 61% proficiency rate. Part of Forest City Comm School District. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Forest City Middle School is a middle school located in Forest City, Iowa. The school serves 330 students in grades 5-8. The student-to-teacher ratio is 12.7:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 61% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
41% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Forest City Middle School is part of the Forest City Comm School District in Iowa. The school receives Title I federal funding.
How This School Compares
Forest City Middle School has 330 students enrolled, making it smaller than the average school in Forest City Comm School District (380 students). Its 61% proficiency rate is 6 percentage points above the district average of 56%. Compared to the Iowa state average of 53%, the school performs 8 points higher. With a 12.7:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.
Frequently Asked Questions
Forest City Middle School has 330 students enrolled in grades 5-8. The student-to-teacher ratio is 12.7:1.
According to EDFacts data, 61% of students at Forest City Middle School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Forest City Middle School is part of the Forest City Comm School District in Forest City, Iowa. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.