Garfield Elementary School

Garfield Elementary School is an elementary campus of sizable scale in Clarinda, Iowa, operated by Clarinda Comm School District, educateing 573 students in grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so Garfield Elementary School sits 76% bigger than that benchmark.

Clarinda Comm School District runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 1,084 students. Garfield Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Garfield Elementary School reports that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Garfield Elementary School logs 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. The state averages about 13.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 48% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Garfield Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 68.1%; this one delivers 69.8%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Page County indicate median household income runs about $57,953, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Garfield Elementary School is one of 11 public schools in Page County (combined enrollment of about 2,557 students).

Clarinda High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 3 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Garfield Elementary School at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 71.1%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 27%: 452 students in 2018 compared to 573 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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