Rock Valley Pre-School

Rock Valley Pre-School operates as a very small primary school in Rovk Valley, Iowa, one of the schools within Rock Valley Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 77 students spanning grades pre-K through K. That puts it 76% leaner than the typical public school in Iowa, which averages around 325 students.

Rock Valley Comm School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 884 students; Rock Valley Pre-School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Rock Valley Pre-School logs that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 45% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 85%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 77.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Sioux County's rate of about 45%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Sioux County indicate the typical household earns roughly $86,098 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Sioux County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,321 students), Rock Valley Pre-School is one campus in the mix.

Rock Valley Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Rock Valley Pre-School.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Rock Valley Pre-School typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.