Emerson Hough Elementary School

As a moderately sized elementary-level community in Newton, Iowa, Emerson Hough Elementary School caters to 336 students from grades K through 4, one of the schools within Newton Comm School District.

Emerson Hough Elementary School is one of 7 schools operated by Newton Comm School District, a district that instructs 2,929 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Emerson Hough Elementary School records that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment. Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Jasper County as a whole is about 92% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 57% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Jasper County (around 40%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Emerson Hough Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 63.4%; this one delivers 68.6%.

In the surrounding community, Jasper County reports that the typical household earns roughly $71,311 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Emerson Hough Elementary School is one of 18 public schools in Jasper County (combined enrollment of about 5,668 students).

Newton Senior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Emerson Hough Elementary School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 71.0%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 31%: 257 students in 2018 compared to 336 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 83% to 75% across the same window.

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