Garner-Hayfield-Ventura Elementary School

Garner-Hayfield-Ventura Elementary School is a K-5 school of average-sized scale in Garner, Iowa, overseen by Garner-Hayfield-Ventura Comm School District, hosting 381 students in grades pre-K through 4.

Garner-Hayfield-Ventura Comm School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 931 students. Garner-Hayfield-Ventura Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Garner-Hayfield-Ventura Elementary School records that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 6% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Hancock County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.5:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Garner-Hayfield-Ventura Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Iowa public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 75.8%; Garner-Hayfield-Ventura Elementary School posts 87.6%, +11.8 points above that line.

In the broader community, census data for Hancock County shows the typical household earns roughly $70,601 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Hancock County runs 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,560 students), of which Garner-Hayfield-Ventura Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Garner-Hayfield-Ventura Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Garner-Hayfield-Ventura Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Garner-Hayfield-Ventura Elementary School at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 80.5%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 10%: 423 students in 2018 compared to 381 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Garner-Hayfield-Ventura Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.