Perry Elementary

Set in Perry, Iowa, Perry Elementary is a heavily attended primary school, run under Perry Comm School District. It works with 816 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 151% larger than the typical public school in Iowa, which averages around 325 students.

Perry Comm School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,735 students; Perry Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Perry Elementary lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 40% White, 5% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 7% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.9:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 60% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Dallas County runs at roughly 22%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Perry Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.9%, the actual is 68.8%, a residual of +6.9 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Dallas County put the typical household earns roughly $102,379 per year, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Dallas County's 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,938 students), Perry Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Perry High School, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Perry Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Perry Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 75.6%.

Perry Elementary operates from a town-center location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 10%: 745 students in 2018 compared to 816 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 46% to 40%.

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