Springville Elementary School

As a medium-sized elementary school in Springville, Iowa, Springville Elementary School serves 294 students from grades pre-K through 6, run under Springville Comm School District.

Within Springville Comm School District, which oversees 2 schools and 478 students, Springville Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Springville Elementary School records that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.

On the income-and-resources front, Springville Elementary School reports 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.1:1. The state averages about 13.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Linn County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Springville Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 79.2%; this one delivers 80.0%.

Around the school, Linn County reports that median household income runs about $77,649, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Linn County's 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,480 students), Springville Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Springville Secondary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Springville Elementary School at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 75.9%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 27%: 232 students in 2018 compared to 294 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share increased from 92% to 96%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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