Lamoni Elementary School

Lamoni Elementary School is an elementary-level community of close-knit scale in Lamoni, Iowa, operated by Lamoni Comm School District, hosting 191 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 325 students per school, that is 41% smaller than typical.

Within Lamoni Comm School District, which oversees 3 schools and 335 students, Lamoni Elementary School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Lamoni Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%); the rest looks like 7% Hispanic, 7% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. An estimated 58% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lamoni Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.1%, the actual is 59.1%, a residual of -4.0 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Decatur County) shows that median household income runs about $59,044, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Decatur County runs 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 967 students), of which Lamoni Elementary School is one.

Lamoni Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Lamoni Elementary School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lamoni Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 60.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lamoni Elementary School has climbed 9%, going from 175 students in 2018 to 191 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 10.7:1 in 2018 to 17.7:1 in 2025.

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