Jesup Elementary School

Jesup Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary school in Jesup, Iowa, part of Jesup Comm School District. The school enrolls 412 students in grades pre-K through 4. That puts it 27% bigger than the typical public school in Iowa, which averages around 325 students.

Jesup Comm School District comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 1,024 students; Jesup Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Jesup Elementary School records that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Jesup Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 79.1%; this one delivers 81.9%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Buchanan County indicate median household income runs about $78,236, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Buchanan County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,231 students), of which Jesup Elementary School is one.

Jesup 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. On composite proficiency, Jesup Elementary School comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 76.5%.

Jesup Elementary School operates from a low-density location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 414 students in 2018 compared to 412 in 2025.

On this page, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.