Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

Fort Dodge Middle School, Fort Dodge, IA

CEP schoolFort Dodge Middle School is a public middle school in Fort Dodge, part of Fort Dodge Comm School District. It enrolled 765 students in 2024-25, with 17.4 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 765
Teachers (FTE): 44.0
Students per teacher: 17.4
Grades: 6 to 8

This school's ratio is 1.6 higher than the district figure of 15.8. The Iowa average across schools is 14.4. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school17.4

District15.8

Iowa14.4

United States15.3

School details

Address: 800 North 32nd Street, Fort Dodge, IA 50501
Phone: (515)574-5691
District: Fort Dodge Comm School District
County: Webster County
Level: Middle
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Locale: Town: Remote
NCES school ID: 191182002197

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 379
Reduced-price lunch: 44
Free or reduced-price lunch: 42355.3% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision: Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.