Panorama Elementary

Panorama Elementary, a medium-sized elementary campus in Panora, Iowa, overseen by Panorama Comm School District, teaches 306 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 3 schools in Panorama Comm School District (672 students total), Panorama Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Panorama Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). Beyond that, the school shows 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 24 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. About 32% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Panorama Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 76.1%; this one comes in at 65.3%, -10.8 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Guthrie County indicate median household earnings sit near $77,711, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Panorama Elementary is one of 9 public schools in Guthrie County (combined enrollment of about 1,858 students).

Nearest neighbor: Panorama Middle School, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Panorama Elementary comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 73.0%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Panorama Elementary's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 301 (now 306).

In the discussion threads here, members of the Panorama Elementary community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.