Harris-Lake Park Elementary School

Harris-Lake Park Elementary School is one of the tight-knit elementary schools in Lake Park, Iowa, part of Harris-Lake Park Comm School District, with 167 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 49% smaller than the state mean of about 325.

Within Harris-Lake Park Comm School District, which oversees 2 schools and 341 students, Harris-Lake Park Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Harris-Lake Park Elementary School lists that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Harris-Lake Park Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 41% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Dickinson County's rate of about 31%.

After controlling for student poverty, Harris-Lake Park Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 71.6%; this one delivers 67.8%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Dickinson County indicate median household earnings sit near $75,432, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Dickinson County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,005 students), Harris-Lake Park Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Harris-Lake Park High School, around 0.7 miles off. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Harris-Lake Park Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 74.5%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Harris-Lake Park Elementary School's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 165 (now 167). The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

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