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Logan-Magnolia Elementary School
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ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 81 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 82 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 83% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 76% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Iowa's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Logan-Magnolia Elementary School
Logan-Magnolia Elementary School operates as a reasonably sized elementary campus in Logan, Iowa, one of the schools within Logan-Magnolia Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 431 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so Logan-Magnolia Elementary School sits 33% bigger than that benchmark.
Logan-Magnolia Comm School District runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 725 students. Logan-Magnolia Elementary School is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, Logan-Magnolia Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). Beyond that, the school shows 3% Hispanic. Compared to Harrison County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. About 32% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
After controlling for student poverty, Logan-Magnolia Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 75.8%, the actual is 82.7%, a residual of +6.9 points.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Harrison County indicate median household income runs about $79,535, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Harrison County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,535 students), Logan-Magnolia Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Logan-Magnolia Jr-Sr High School, around 0.0 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Logan-Magnolia Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 73.9%.
Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Logan-Magnolia Elementary School has held roughly steady, going from 426 students in 2018 to 431 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 today.
On allk12, the feed for Logan-Magnolia Elementary School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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