Nodaway Valley Elementary School

Nodaway Valley Elementary School operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Greenfield, Iowa, part of Nodaway Valley Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 312 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Nodaway Valley Comm School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 636 students. Nodaway Valley Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Nodaway Valley Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). The remainder is composed of 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Adair County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, On paper, Nodaway Valley Elementary School has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 41% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Nodaway Valley Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.3%, the actual is 75.0%, a residual of +3.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Adair County put median household income runs about $68,092, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Nodaway Valley Elementary School is one of 5 public schools in Adair County (combined enrollment of about 744 students).

The closest other public school is Nodaway Valley High School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 4 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Nodaway Valley Elementary School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 74.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Nodaway Valley Elementary School's enrollment has climbed 5% since 2018, when it stood at 298 (now 312).

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