Eldora-New Providence Elementary School

Eldora-New Providence Elementary School operates as a close-knit elementary school in Eldora, Iowa, run under Eldora-New Providence Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 242 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 26% smaller than the typical public school in Iowa, which averages around 325 students.

Eldora-New Providence Comm School District comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 479 students; Eldora-New Providence Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Eldora-New Providence Elementary School reports that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 7% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Eldora-New Providence Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 46% of students at Eldora-New Providence Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Eldora-New Providence Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.8%, the actual is 71.2%, a residual of +2.4 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Hardin County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $65,069 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Eldora-New Providence Elementary School is one of 14 public schools in Hardin County (combined enrollment of about 3,073 students).

The closest other public school is South Hardin High School, roughly 1.1 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Eldora-New Providence Elementary School comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 68.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Eldora-New Providence Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 22% since 2018, when it stood at 310 (now 242).

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