New Hampton Elementary School

New Hampton Elementary School is one of the well-populated elementary schools in New Hampton, Iowa, operated by New Hampton Comm School District, with 504 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4. That puts it 55% larger than the typical public school in Iowa, which averages around 325 students.

New Hampton Comm School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,126 students; New Hampton Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, New Hampton Elementary School records that nearly all students (82%) are White. The remainder looks like 15% Hispanic. By comparison, Chickasaw County as a whole is about 95% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, New Hampton Elementary School has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.2:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 40% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, New Hampton Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.8%, the actual is 73.8%, a residual of +2.0 points.

In the area at large, Chickasaw County reports that the typical household earns roughly $75,675 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Chickasaw County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,055 students), New Hampton Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: New Hampton Middle School, around 0.5 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, New Hampton Elementary School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 76.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at New Hampton Elementary School has rose 15%, going from 439 students in 2018 to 504 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 5% to 15% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the New Hampton Elementary School community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.