Durant Elementary School

Located at 601 West Fifth Street, in Sumner, Iowa, Durant Elementary School is an intimate elementary-level community that hosts 209 students (grades pre-K through 4), one of the schools within Sumner-Fredericksburg Comm School District. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so Durant Elementary School sits 36% below that benchmark.

Within Sumner-Fredericksburg Comm School District, which oversees 4 schools and 789 students, Durant Elementary School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Durant Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). Other groups include 9% multiracial, 3% Hispanic.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 35% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Bremer County runs at roughly 21%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Durant Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 74.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 70.4%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Bremer County indicate median household income runs about $86,784, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Bremer County runs 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,346 students), of which Durant Elementary School is one.

Sumner-Fredericksburg High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Durant Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 73.6%.

Durant Elementary School operates from a rural location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Durant Elementary School has fell 16%, going from 249 students in 2018 to 209 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 94% to 87% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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