Janesville Elementary School

Janesville Elementary School is a low-enrollment primary school in Janesville, Iowa, operated by Janesville Consolidated School District. The school teaches 269 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 2 schools in Janesville Consolidated School District (512 students total), Janesville Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Janesville Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). Beyond that, the school lists 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Janesville Elementary School lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 15% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Janesville Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 84.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 80.6%.

In the area at large, Bremer County reports that median household earnings sit near $86,784, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Bremer County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,346 students), Janesville Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Janesville Junior-Senior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Janesville Elementary School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 84.0%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Janesville Elementary School's enrollment has expanded 13% since 2018, when it stood at 238 (now 269).

On this page, members of the Janesville Elementary School community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.