Duncombe Elementary School

Duncombe Elementary School is one of the reasonably sized K-5 schools in Fort Dodge, Iowa, part of Fort Dodge Comm School District, with 438 students on its rolls from grades 1 through 5. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so Duncombe Elementary School sits 35% bigger than that benchmark.

Fort Dodge Comm School District runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,385 students. Duncombe Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Duncombe Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 26% Hispanic, 15% multiracial, 7% Black. The wider county runs roughly 86% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Duncombe Elementary School logs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.4:1. The state averages about 13.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 70% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Webster County's rate of about 50%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Duncombe Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Iowa public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 56.9%; Duncombe Elementary School posts 43.8%, -13.1 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Webster County indicate median household earnings sit near $68,975, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Duncombe Elementary School is one of 12 public schools in Webster County (combined enrollment of about 4,678 students).

Early Childhood Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Duncombe Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Duncombe Elementary School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 57.0%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Looking at the recent track record. Duncombe Elementary School's enrollment has expanded 11% since 2018, when it stood at 396 (now 438). Over the same period, the White share declined from 59% to 51%.

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