Nashua-Plainfield Elementary School

Located at 621 Panama St, in Nashua, Iowa, Nashua-Plainfield Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school that caters to 281 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Nashua-Plainfield Comm School District.

Within Nashua-Plainfield Comm School District, which oversees 2 schools and 592 students, Nashua-Plainfield Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Nashua-Plainfield Elementary School records that nearly all students (94%) are White. Other groups include 5% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Chickasaw County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Nashua-Plainfield Elementary School reports 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 23% of students at Nashua-Plainfield Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Chickasaw County runs at roughly 36%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Nashua-Plainfield Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 80.4%, the actual is 74.3%, a residual of -6.1 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Chickasaw County indicate median household income runs about $75,675, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Nashua-Plainfield Elementary School is one of 7 public schools in Chickasaw County (combined enrollment of about 2,055 students).

Nashua-Plainfield Junior-Senior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 3 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Nashua-Plainfield Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 69.5%.

Nashua-Plainfield Elementary School operates from a countryside location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 37%: 205 students in 2018 compared to 281 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

On the community side, the feed for Nashua-Plainfield Elementary School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.