North Linn Elementary

Set in Troy Mills, Iowa, North Linn Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school, one of the schools within North Linn Comm School District. It teaches 281 students across grades pre-K through 5.

North Linn Comm School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 550 students; North Linn Elementary is among them.

On demographics, North Linn Elementary lists that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 23% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Linn County (around 40%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, North Linn Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 80.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 77.8%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Linn County shows median household income runs about $77,649, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. North Linn Elementary is one of 83 public schools in Linn County (combined enrollment of about 36,480 students).

The closest other public school is North-Linn Middle School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, North Linn Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 77.4%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 17%: 241 students in 2018 compared to 281 in 2025.

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