Seymour Elementary School

Located at 100 South Park, in Seymour, Iowa, Seymour Elementary School is a minimally staffed primary school that instructs 98 students (grades pre-K through 4), overseen by Seymour Comm School District. Enrollment runs roughly 70% smaller than the state mean of about 325.

Seymour Comm School District comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 219 students; Seymour Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Seymour Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (96%). The remainder consists of 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Seymour Elementary School has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.0:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 73% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Wayne County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Seymour Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.2%; this one delivers 62.8%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Wayne County indicate median household earnings sit near $61,964, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Seymour Elementary School is one of 6 public schools in Wayne County (combined enrollment of about 1,032 students).

Seymour High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Seymour Elementary School at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 61.0%.

Seymour Elementary School operates from a rural location.

Five-year trend. Seymour Elementary School's enrollment has fell 28% since 2018, when it stood at 136 (now 98). Class-load math has pulled in: from 10.6:1 in 2018 to 8.0:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Seymour Elementary School community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.