AHSTW Primary School

Located at 768 S Maple, in Avoca, Iowa, AHSTW Primary School is a mid-tier K-5 school that educates 280 students (grades pre-K through 3), run under AHSTW Comm School District.

AHSTW Primary School is one of 3 schools operated by AHSTW Comm School District, a district that enrolls 755 students overall.

On the student-mix side, AHSTW Primary School logs that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. Compared to Pottawattamie County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting AHSTW Primary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 37% of students at AHSTW Primary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), AHSTW Primary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 73.5%; this one delivers 79.0%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Pottawattamie County) reports that median household earnings sit near $73,602, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Pottawattamie County runs 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,270 students), of which AHSTW Primary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: AHSTW Intermediate School, around 0.0 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, AHSTW Primary School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 77.1%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at AHSTW Primary School has edged down 33%, going from 419 students in 2018 to 280 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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