Tipton Elementary School

Tipton Elementary School is one of the medium-sized K-5 schools in Tipton, Iowa, overseen by Tipton Comm School District, with 284 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4.

Tipton Elementary School is one of 3 schools operated by Tipton Comm School District, a district that educates 842 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Tipton Elementary School records that nearly all students (90%) are White; the rest reads as 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.0:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 24% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Tipton Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 80.1%; actual is 65.5%, a gap of -14.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Cedar County put median household earnings sit near $80,602, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Tipton Elementary School is one of 13 public schools in Cedar County (combined enrollment of about 3,030 students).

Tipton Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Tipton Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Tipton Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 70.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 27%: 390 students in 2018 compared to 284 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 95% to 90%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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