Ruthven-Ayrshire Elementary School

Ruthven-Ayrshire Elementary School, a minimally staffed elementary-level community in Ruthven, Iowa, part of Ruthven-Ayrshire Comm School District, instructs 89 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so Ruthven-Ayrshire Elementary School sits 73% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Ruthven-Ayrshire Comm School District, which oversees 2 schools and 147 students, Ruthven-Ayrshire Elementary School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Ruthven-Ayrshire Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). The remainder reads as 9% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Ruthven-Ayrshire Elementary School records 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. About 49% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Ruthven-Ayrshire Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 67.2%; this one comes in at 48.7%, -18.6 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Palo Alto County put median household income runs about $72,781, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Ruthven-Ayrshire Elementary School is one of 10 public schools in Palo Alto County (combined enrollment of about 1,472 students).

Ruthven-Ayrshire High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ruthven-Ayrshire Elementary School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 72.7%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Over the past 7-year window. Ruthven-Ayrshire Elementary School's enrollment has declined 15% since 2018, when it stood at 105 (now 89). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 89% to 84%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 today.

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