Enrollment
286
Elementary
DISTRICT 332 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MARSHALLTOWN COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 191872001082
Anson Elementary School
1016 S 3rd Ave, Marshalltown, IA 50158 · (641) 754-1020 · Marshall County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL286 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 58% of Iowa public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Iowa public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.1:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
84%
240 students
DISTRICT 76% · STATE 41%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 29 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 56 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 68 | 24% |
| Grade 2 | 46 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 43 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 44 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (56) is 27% larger than its 4th grade class (44).
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 48% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Anson Elementary School→Lenihan Intermediate School→B R Miller Middle School→Marshalltown High School
Based on grade levels within Marshalltown Comm School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
71.2%
IA avg 73.6% . +16.4pp since 2023
Math
70.0%
IA avg 70.9% . +3.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores are up about 16 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 71.2% | 70.0% |
| 2023-24 | 54.8% | 66.7% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: ISASP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
65.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.0%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 50% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 16 points, placing it in Iowa's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Anson Elementary School
Anson Elementary School's state test result (65.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anson Elementary School this school | 286 | 83.9% | 65.6% |
| Rogers Elementary School Marshalltown | 253 | 86.2% | 49.4% |
| Madison Elementary School Des Moines | 285 | 88.8% | 44.1% |
| Broadway Elementary School Denison | 288 | 70.8% | 70.7% |
| Storm Lake Early Elementary School Storm lake | 437 | 73.7% | N/A |
| Crestview School of Inquiry Clive | 558 | 84.1% | 52.0% |
Matched among Iowa elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Anson Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Marshall County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.6% | #399 of 564 | #6 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #381 of 564 ▲ 40 | #5 of 8 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 71.2% | #314 of 564 ▲ 149 | #3 of 8 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 286 | #408 of 705 | #6 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.1:1 | #49 of 561 | #1 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.1% | #201 of 561 | #5 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.9% | #31 of 666 | #2 of 9 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.8% | #109 of 359 | #2 of 7 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
286
-7 (-2%) vs 2020
-17% since 1990-91, when it was 344
Student : Teacher
11.1:1
was 9.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 286 | 25.7 | 11.1:1 | 84% (240) |
| 2023-24 | 288 | 24.7 | 11.7:1 | 88% (254) |
| 2022-23 | 275 | 23.6 | 11.6:1 | 88% (243) |
| 2020-21 | 293 | 30 | 9.8:1 | 83% (242) |
| 2017-18 | 352 | 33 | 10.7:1 | 82% (289) |
| 2015-16 | 345 | 27 | 12.8:1 | 76% (262) |
| 2010-11 | 304 | 27 | 11.3:1 | 85% (259) |
| 2000-01 | 372 | 22 | 16.9:1 | 64% (238) |
| 1990-91 | 344 | 23 | 15.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Anson Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (352 to 286); teachers down 22% (33 to 25.7).
About Anson Elementary School
Anson Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in Marshalltown, Iowa. Enrolled students number 286 students, in pre-K through 4.
Marshalltown Comm School District has 5,099 students in 10 schools, and Anson Elementary School is one of those schools.
Hispanic students make up a majority at Anson Elementary School, at 67%. Other students are 15% White, 8% Asian, 5% Black, and 5% multiracial. That is higher than the 25% Hispanic share among all Marshall County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 52% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Anson Elementary School employs 25.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 11.1:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 13.7:1 average for elementary schools in Iowa. Anson Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 84%. That is higher than the 65% average for public schools in Marshall County.
Measured against Iowa public elementary schools, Anson Elementary School receives a B. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Anson Elementary School beats its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests by 15.6 points (65.6% versus 50.0%), a top-10% result in Iowa on BeatsExpectations.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Marshall County show that the median household income is $73,315, about 23% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Besides Anson Elementary School, Marshall County has 16 other public schools.
The nearest other public school, Marshalltown Virtual Academy, is less than a tenth of a mile away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Anson Elementary School ranks 3rd of 8 on average proficiency.
Under the NCES locale system, Anson Elementary School is Town: Distant.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, enrollment moved from 293 to 286, a small change. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 9.8:1; by 2024-25 it was 11.1:1.
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Marshall County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
40,114
Census ACS
Median income
$73,315
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
17
6,903 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Marshalltown Comm School District
- Marshalltown High SchoolHigh · 1,629 students
- B R Miller Middle SchoolMiddle · 736 students
- Lenihan Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 655 students
- Woodbury Elementary SchoolElementary · 387 students
- Fisher Elementary SchoolElementary · 368 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolElementary · 358 students
Other schools in Marshalltown
- Marshalltown High SchoolHigh · 1,629 students
- B R Miller Middle SchoolMiddle · 736 students
- Lenihan Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 655 students
- Woodbury Elementary SchoolElementary · 387 students
- Fisher Elementary SchoolElementary · 368 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolElementary · 358 students
Other Anson Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Anson Elementary. Anson Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Anson Elementary SchoolANSON, TX · 360 students
Nearby schools
- Marshalltown Virtual Academy0.1 mi · 90
- Marshalltown High School0.4 mi · 1,629
- Lenihan Intermediate School0.6 mi · 655
- Fisher Elementary School1.0 mi · 368
- Woodbury Elementary School1.1 mi · 387
- J C Hoglan Elementary School1.2 mi · 337
Frequently asked questions
About Anson Elementary SchoolHow large is Anson Elementary School?
Anson Elementary School enrolls approximately 286 students in grades PK-04.
What age range does Anson Elementary School serve?
Anson Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Anson Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Anson Elementary School is approximately 11.1:1 (26 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Anson Elementary School?
Student demographics at Anson Elementary School are roughly 15% White, 67% Hispanic, 5% Black, 8% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Anson Elementary School?
Anson Elementary School is overseen by Marshalltown Comm School District in Marshall County.
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