Readlyn Elementary School

Readlyn Elementary School is an elementary-level community of minimally staffed scale in Readlyn, Iowa, one of the schools within Wapsie Valley Comm School District, instructing 107 students in grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 67% below the typical public school in Iowa, which averages around 325 students.

Readlyn Elementary School is one of 6 schools operated by Wapsie Valley Comm School District, a district that works with 637 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Readlyn Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). The remainder breaks down as 7% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Bremer County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Readlyn Elementary School has 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Around 21% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Readlyn Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 81.7%, the actual is 82.8%, a residual of +1.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, Bremer County reports that median household earnings sit near $86,784, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Bremer County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,346 students), Readlyn Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Wapsie Valley High School, around 4.6 miles off. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Readlyn Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 82.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Readlyn Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 18% since 2018, when it stood at 130 (now 107). The White share of enrollment edged down from 98% to 91% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 23.6:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.