Louisa-Muscatine Elementary

Louisa-Muscatine Elementary is a K-5 school of middle-of-the-pack scale in Letts, Iowa, operated by Louisa-Muscatine Comm School District, instructing 468 students in grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so Louisa-Muscatine Elementary sits 44% larger than that benchmark.

Louisa-Muscatine Elementary is one of 2 schools operated by Louisa-Muscatine Comm School District, a district that caters to 821 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Louisa-Muscatine Elementary shows that nearly all students (90%) are White. The remainder consists of 8% Hispanic. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 79%.

On the resource side, On paper, Louisa-Muscatine Elementary has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.8:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 39% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Louisa-Muscatine Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.6%, the actual is 76.4%, a residual of +3.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, Louisa County reports that the typical household earns roughly $77,354 per year, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Louisa-Muscatine Elementary is one of 9 public schools in Louisa County (combined enrollment of about 2,165 students).

The closest other public school is Louisa-Muscatine JR/SR High School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Louisa-Muscatine Elementary at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 66.4%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Louisa-Muscatine Elementary has held roughly steady, going from 470 students in 2018 to 468 in 2025.

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