Ogden Elementary School

Set in Ogden, Iowa, Ogden Elementary School is a reasonably sized elementary campus, run under Ogden Comm School District. It instructs 321 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Ogden Comm School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 713 students. Ogden Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Ogden Elementary School lists that nearly all students (93%) are White. The remainder consists of 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Boone County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Around 26% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Ogden Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Iowa public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 79.2%; Ogden Elementary School posts 89.2%, +10.0 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Boone County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,531 per year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Ogden Elementary School is one of 15 public schools in Boone County (combined enrollment of about 3,735 students).

Ogden High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Ogden Elementary School at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 70.9%.

Ogden Elementary School operates from a countryside location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ogden Elementary School has expanded 18%, going from 273 students in 2018 to 321 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 98% to 93%. Class-load math has fell: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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