Tiffin Elementary

Tiffin Elementary, a modestly sized K-5 school in Tiffin, Iowa, operated by Clear Creek Amana Comm School District, serves 191 students, covering grades K through 1. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so Tiffin Elementary sits 41% smaller than that benchmark.

Clear Creek Amana Comm School District runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 3,156 students. Tiffin Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Tiffin Elementary records that the largest single group is White, at 56% of enrollment. Other groups include 18% Black, 12% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 7% Asian. By comparison, Johnson County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Tiffin Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 37% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Tiffin Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 73.3%; this one delivers 71.0%.

Around the school, census data for Johnson County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,935 per year, about 55% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Johnson County's 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,019 students), Tiffin Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Oak Hill Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Tiffin Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 75.6%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Tiffin Elementary's enrollment has shrank 57% since 2018, when it stood at 448 (now 191). White enrollment moved from 75% to 56% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 in 2025.

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