La Porte City Elementary School

La Porte City Elementary School, a small elementary campus in La Porte City, Iowa, operated by Union Comm School District, serves 260 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 4 schools in Union Comm School District (952 students total), La Porte City Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, La Porte City Elementary School records that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% Hispanic. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

Looking at school resources, La Porte City Elementary School lists 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. The state averages about 13.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 24% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Black Hawk County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, La Porte City Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 80.0%; this one delivers 83.3%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Black Hawk County indicate median household earnings sit near $66,417, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Black Hawk County's 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,224 students), La Porte City Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Union High School, roughly 0.6 miles away. On composite proficiency, La Porte City Elementary School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 69.8%.

La Porte City Elementary School operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. La Porte City Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 14% since 2018, when it stood at 303 (now 260). Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 1% to 5%.

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