Orchard Hills Elementary

Orchard Hills Elementary is a primary school of big scale in Norwalk, Iowa, one of the schools within Norwalk Comm School District, hosting 558 students in grades 2 through 3. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so Orchard Hills Elementary sits 72% above that benchmark.

Across the 5 schools in Norwalk Comm School District (3,519 students total), Orchard Hills Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Orchard Hills Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%). The remainder breaks down as 8% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Warren County as a whole is about 93% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Orchard Hills Elementary records 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Around 24% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Orchard Hills Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 80.0%, the actual is 81.8%, a residual of +1.8 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Warren County put median household earnings sit near $94,588, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Across Warren County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,473 students), Orchard Hills Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Oviatt Elementary School, roughly 1.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Orchard Hills Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 60.8%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

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