Lone Tree Elementary School

Lone Tree Elementary School is an elementary school of close-knit scale in Lone Tree, Iowa, overseen by Lone Tree Comm School District, serveing 196 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 40% below the typical public school in Iowa, which averages around 325 students.

Lone Tree Comm School District comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 401 students; Lone Tree Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Lone Tree Elementary School reports that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Johnson County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Lone Tree Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 33% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Lone Tree Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 75.4%, the actual is 82.4%, a residual of +7.1 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Johnson County put the typical household earns roughly $74,935 per year, about 55% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Johnson County's 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,019 students), Lone Tree Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Lone Tree Middle-Senior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Lone Tree Elementary School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 59.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. Lone Tree Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 21% since 2018, when it stood at 249 (now 196). Class-load math has fell: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.

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