Center Point-Urbana Primary School

Center Point-Urbana Primary School is an elementary-level community of middle-of-the-pack scale in Center Point, Iowa, overseen by Center Point-Urbana Comm School District, works with 365 students in grades pre-K through 2.

Center Point-Urbana Primary School is one of 4 schools operated by Center Point-Urbana Comm School District, a district that instructs 1,370 students overall.

On demographics, Center Point-Urbana Primary School records that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Linn County as a whole is about 84% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Center Point-Urbana Primary School logs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 19% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Linn County's rate of about 40%.

In the broader community, census data for Linn County shows the typical household earns roughly $77,649 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Linn County runs 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,480 students), of which Center Point-Urbana Primary School is one.

Center Point-Urbana Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Center Point-Urbana Primary School operates from a low-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 12%: 414 students in 2018 compared to 365 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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