Gilmore City Elementary School

Gilmore City Elementary School, a micro-enrollment elementary-level community in Gilmore City, Iowa, run under Gilmore City-Bradgate Comm School District, teaches 59 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 82% below the state mean of about 325.

Gilmore City Elementary School sits inside Gilmore City-Bradgate Comm School District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On demographics, Gilmore City Elementary School records that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 8% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Gilmore City Elementary School shows 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Humboldt County (around 32%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Gilmore City Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 62.3%; actual is 49.6%, a gap of -12.7 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Humboldt County put median household income runs about $71,946, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Humboldt County runs 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,530 students), of which Gilmore City Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Humboldt High School, roughly 10.6 miles away. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Gilmore City Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 77.2%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 14%: 69 students in 2018 compared to 59 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 97% to 90% over that span.

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