Farley Elementary School

Farley Elementary School is one of the small K-5 schools in Farley, Iowa, one of the schools within Western Dubuque Comm School District, with 273 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Western Dubuque Comm School District runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 3,643 students. Farley Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Farley Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%). Other groups include 12% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Farley Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 29% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Dubuque County's rate of about 39%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Farley Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 77.3%, the actual is 74.1%, a residual of -3.2 points.

In the area at large, census data for Dubuque County shows median household earnings sit near $77,630, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Farley Elementary School is one of 26 public schools in Dubuque County (combined enrollment of about 13,164 students).

Nearest neighbor: Drexler Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Farley Elementary School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 81.1%.

Farley Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Farley Elementary School's enrollment has grew 20% since 2018, when it stood at 227 (now 273). The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 7% to 12% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

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