Dunkerton Elementary

Dunkerton Elementary is an elementary school of tight-knit scale in Dunkerton, Iowa, run under Dunkerton Comm School District, caters to 215 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so Dunkerton Elementary sits 34% below that benchmark.

Within Dunkerton Comm School District, which oversees 2 schools and 415 students, Dunkerton Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Dunkerton Elementary records that nearly all students (90%) are White. Beyond that, the school reports 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Dunkerton Elementary has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.6:1. The state averages about 13.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 39% of students at Dunkerton Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Black Hawk County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Dunkerton Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.6%, the actual is 75.4%, a residual of +2.8 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Black Hawk County) logs that median household income runs about $66,417, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Black Hawk County's 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,224 students), Dunkerton Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Dunkerton High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Dunkerton Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 77.1%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 8%: 199 students in 2018 compared to 215 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 94% to 90% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 10.6:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

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