Iowa Valley Elementary School

As a reasonably sized elementary-level community in Marengo, Iowa, Iowa Valley Elementary School educates 314 students from grades pre-K through 6, one of the schools within Iowa Valley Comm School District.

Iowa Valley Elementary School is one of 2 schools operated by Iowa Valley Comm School District, a district that works with 543 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Iowa Valley Elementary School logs that nearly all students (93%) are White. Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Iowa Valley Elementary School has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Iowa Valley Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Iowa County (around 30%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Iowa Valley Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 71.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 78.6%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Iowa County indicate the typical household earns roughly $71,223 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Iowa County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,580 students), of which Iowa Valley Elementary School is one.

Iowa Valley Jr-Sr High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 5 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Iowa Valley Elementary School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 74.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Iowa Valley Elementary School has contracted 8%, going from 343 students in 2018 to 314 in 2025. The White share of enrollment increased from 88% to 93% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

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