Fairview Park Elementary

Fairview Park Elementary is one of the low-enrollment elementary schools in Spencer, Iowa, overseen by Spencer Comm School District, with 249 students on its rolls from grades 1 through 2. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so Fairview Park Elementary sits 23% leaner than that benchmark.

Spencer Comm School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,094 students; Fairview Park Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Fairview Park Elementary shows that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment; the rest reads as 12% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 93% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 60% of students at Fairview Park Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Clay County's rate of about 51%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Clay County) reports that median household income runs about $65,428, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Clay County's 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,147 students), Fairview Park Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Spencer Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Fairview Park Elementary operates from a town-based location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 5%: 261 students in 2018 compared to 249 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 88% to 79% across the same window.

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