Johnston Elementary School

Johnston Elementary School operates as a rural-scale K-5 school in Hopkinton, Iowa, one of the schools within Maquoketa Valley Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 94 students spanning grades 1 through 2. Enrollment runs roughly 71% below the state mean of about 325.

Johnston Elementary School is one of 5 schools operated by Maquoketa Valley Comm School District, a district that educates 702 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Johnston Elementary School reports that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 2% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. Compared to Delaware County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. An estimated 33% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Delaware County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $74,989 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Delaware County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,571 students), of which Johnston Elementary School is one.

Maquoketa Valley Senior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 6.8 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas.

Johnston Elementary School operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Johnston Elementary School's enrollment has climbed 7% since 2018, when it stood at 88 (now 94).

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