Rock Run Elementary

Rock Run Elementary operates as a mid-tier elementary school in Iowa Falls, Iowa, operated by Iowa Falls Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 292 students spanning grades 2 through 5.

Iowa Falls Comm School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,228 students; Rock Run Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Rock Run Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%). Beyond that, the school reports 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

On the resource side, On paper, Rock Run Elementary has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Rock Run Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 40% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Rock Run Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.9%, the actual is 80.0%, a residual of +8.1 points.

In the broader community, Hardin County reports that the typical household earns roughly $65,069 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Hardin County runs 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,073 students), of which Rock Run Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Riverbend Middle School, around 0.4 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Rock Run Elementary at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 70.8%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 13%: 334 students in 2018 compared to 292 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.

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