East Elementary School

East Elementary School operates as a mid-tier elementary school in Sheldon, Iowa, part of Sheldon Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 468 students spanning grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so East Elementary School sits 44% larger than that benchmark.

Sheldon Comm School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,179 students; East Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, East Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 66%. Beyond that, the school reports 28% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, O'Brien County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 42% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, East Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Iowa public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 70.8%; East Elementary School posts 93.7%, +22.9 points above that line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for O'Brien County put median household earnings sit near $68,356, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. East Elementary School is one of 9 public schools in O'Brien County (combined enrollment of about 2,377 students).

Sheldon High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, East Elementary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 76.3%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Over the past 7-year window. East Elementary School's enrollment has grew 17% since 2018, when it stood at 400 (now 468). The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 17% to 28% over that span.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.