Emerson Elementary School

As a medium-sized elementary campus in Indianola, Iowa, Emerson Elementary School works with 396 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Indianola Comm School District. That puts it 22% bigger than the typical public school in Iowa, which averages around 325 students.

Indianola Comm School District runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,599 students. Emerson Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Emerson Elementary School lists that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Around 27% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Emerson Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 78.3%, the actual is 71.3%, a residual of -7.0 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Warren County) records that the typical household earns roughly $94,588 per year, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Emerson Elementary School is one of 20 public schools in Warren County (combined enrollment of about 10,473 students).

Nearest neighbor: Indianola High School, around 0.4 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Emerson Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 75.8%.

Emerson Elementary School operates from a town-center location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 11%: 443 students in 2018 compared to 396 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

Inside the community feed, members of the Emerson Elementary School community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.