Bettendorf Middle School Principal Alan Hartley serves pizza and cupcakes to his students at the school’s inaugural Junior Optimist International (JOI) Club meeting at Bettendorf Middle School ...

Before the Iowa High School Athletic Association, or IHSAA, banned the pole vault from competition in the late 1980s, there was a vault-related death at Bettendorf Middle School.

Scott Shalk, Bettendorf Middle School counselor, described his role in the building. “ [We] try to make school as best we can for all our students in Bettendorf from safety and social, emotional ...