Southeast Elementary School

Southeast Elementary School operates as a minimally staffed elementary campus in Waverly, Iowa, one of the schools within Waverly-Shell Rock Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 31 students spanning grade pre-K. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so Southeast Elementary School sits 90% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 9 schools in Waverly-Shell Rock Comm School District (2,722 students total), Southeast Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Southeast Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%). Beyond that, the school shows 6% Pacific Islander, 3% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% Asian. By comparison, Bremer County as a whole is about 93% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Around 16% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Southeast Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 83.9%, the actual is 92.7%, a residual of +8.8 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Bremer County) logs that median household earnings sit near $86,784, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Southeast Elementary School is one of 20 public schools in Bremer County (combined enrollment of about 5,346 students).

Nearest neighbor: Waverly-Shell Rock Senior High School, around 1.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Southeast Elementary School comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 82.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Southeast Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 83% since 2018, when it stood at 178 (now 31). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 89% to 81%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Southeast Elementary School community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.