Schleswig Elementary School

Schleswig Elementary School is an elementary-level community of minimally staffed scale in Schleswig, Iowa, overseen by Schleswig Comm School District, caters to 75 students in grades K through 4. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so Schleswig Elementary School sits 77% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Schleswig Comm School District, which oversees 2 schools and 126 students, Schleswig Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Schleswig Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%); the rest reads as 16% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

On the resource side, Schleswig Elementary School records 8 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. An estimated 47% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Crawford County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Schleswig Elementary School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 68.6%; this one delivers 80.8%, a residual of +12.2 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Crawford County) logs that median household income runs about $67,027, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Crawford County's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,007 students), Schleswig Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Schleswig Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Schleswig Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 70.8%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Five-year trend. Schleswig Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 26% since 2018, when it stood at 102 (now 75). The White share of enrollment shrank from 87% to 80% over that span.

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