St Ansgar Elementary School

As a moderately sized elementary school in St Ansgar, Iowa, St Ansgar Elementary School teaches 345 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of St Ansgar Comm School District.

Within St Ansgar Comm School District, which oversees 3 schools and 643 students, St Ansgar Elementary School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, St Ansgar Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Mitchell County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Roughly 24% of students at St Ansgar Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, St Ansgar Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 79.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 88.7%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Mitchell County indicate the typical household earns roughly $71,365 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Mitchell County runs 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,631 students), of which St Ansgar Elementary School is one.

St Ansgar Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, St Ansgar Elementary School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 61.9%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at St Ansgar Elementary School has expanded 25%, going from 277 students in 2018 to 345 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 97% to 93%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 today.

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