Odebolt Elementary-Odebolt

Located at 600 S. Maple, in Odebolt, Iowa, Odebolt Elementary-Odebolt is a micro-enrollment primary school that enrolls 114 students (grades K through 5), run under Odebolt Arthur Battle Creek Ida Grove Comm School District. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so Odebolt Elementary-Odebolt sits 65% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 4 schools in Odebolt Arthur Battle Creek Ida Grove Comm School District (934 students total), Odebolt Elementary-Odebolt accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Odebolt Elementary-Odebolt reports that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Odebolt Elementary-Odebolt logs 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Odebolt Elementary-Odebolt tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 44% of students at Odebolt Elementary-Odebolt qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

In the area at large, Sac County reports that the typical household earns roughly $73,838 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Sac County's 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,362 students), Odebolt Elementary-Odebolt is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Odebolt Arthur Battle Creek Ida Grove Middle School, around 0.0 miles off.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 19%: 141 students in 2018 compared to 114 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 100% to 90% across the same window.

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