Madrid Elementary School

Set in Madrid, Iowa, Madrid Elementary School is an intimate elementary-level community, part of Madrid Comm School District. It instructs 259 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so Madrid Elementary School sits 20% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Madrid Comm School District, which oversees 4 schools and 628 students, Madrid Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Madrid Elementary School reports that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 5% Hispanic. Compared to Boone County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Madrid Elementary School has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Roughly 23% of students at Madrid Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Madrid Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 80.5%, the actual is 76.8%, a residual of -3.7 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Boone County) records that the typical household earns roughly $83,531 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Boone County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,735 students), of which Madrid Elementary School is one.

Madrid Elementary Preschool is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Madrid Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 79.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Madrid Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 27% since 2018, when it stood at 353 (now 259). Class-load math has tightened: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.

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