Pocahontas Area Elementary School

Pocahontas Area Elementary School is one of the low-enrollment K-5 schools in Pocahontas, Iowa, run under Pocahontas Area Comm School District, with 265 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Pocahontas Area Elementary School is one of 3 schools operated by Pocahontas Area Comm School District, a district that caters to 659 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Pocahontas Area Elementary School lists that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 11% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Pocahontas Area Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 66.8%; this one delivers 70.7%.

In the broader community, Pocahontas County reports that median household income runs about $61,875, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Pocahontas County runs 4 public schools (combined enrollment of about 806 students), of which Pocahontas Area Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Pocahontas Area Regional Learning Center, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Pocahontas Area Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Pocahontas Area Elementary School at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 61.5%.

Pocahontas Area Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 13%: 305 students in 2018 compared to 265 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 5% to 11% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

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