Dyersville Elementary School

Dyersville Elementary School operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Dyersville, Iowa, one of the schools within Western Dubuque Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 322 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Within Western Dubuque Comm School District, which oversees 8 schools and 3,643 students, Dyersville Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Dyersville Elementary School reports that nearly all students (86%) are White. Other groups include 6% Black, 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Delaware County as a whole is about 94% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Around 38% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Delaware County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $74,989 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Dyersville Elementary School is one of 10 public schools in Delaware County (combined enrollment of about 2,571 students).

Drexler Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 7.1 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dyersville Elementary School has increased 13%, going from 285 students in 2018 to 322 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Dyersville Elementary School community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.