Aurelia Elementary School

Aurelia Elementary School, a micro-enrollment elementary school in Aurelia, Iowa, overseen by Alta-Aurelia Comm School District, enrolls 124 students, covering grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so Aurelia Elementary School sits 62% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Alta-Aurelia Comm School District, which oversees 4 schools and 829 students, Aurelia Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Aurelia Elementary School records that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder breaks down as 8% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Cherokee County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 24% of students at Aurelia Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Cherokee County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, census data for Cherokee County shows median household income runs about $71,269, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Aurelia Elementary School is one of 8 public schools in Cherokee County (combined enrollment of about 2,048 students).

Nearest neighbor: Alta-Aurelia Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

Aurelia Elementary School operates from a low-density location.

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