Durant Elementary School

Set in Durant, Iowa, Durant Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school, run under Durant Comm School District. It caters to 342 students across grades pre-K through 6.

Durant Comm School District comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 682 students; Durant Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Durant Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). Beyond that, the school reports 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Cedar County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Durant Elementary School reports 24 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 25% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Durant Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 79.4%; this one delivers 70.0%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Cedar County put median household income runs about $80,602, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cedar County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,030 students), Durant Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Durant Junior/Senior High 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. On composite proficiency, Durant Elementary School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 69.2%.

Durant Elementary School operates from a countryside location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Durant Elementary School has ticked up 30%, going from 264 students in 2018 to 342 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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