Tri-Center Elementary School

Set in Neola, Iowa, Tri-Center Elementary School is a reasonably sized primary school, overseen by Tri-Center Comm School District. It works with 364 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 3 schools in Tri-Center Comm School District (724 students total), Tri-Center Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Tri-Center Elementary School logs that nearly all students (97%) are White. Other groups include 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Pottawattamie County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Roughly 34% of students at Tri-Center Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Tri-Center Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 74.9%; this one delivers 77.5%.

Around the school, census data for Pottawattamie County shows the typical household earns roughly $73,602 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Pottawattamie County's 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,270 students), Tri-Center Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Tri-Center High School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Tri-Center Elementary School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 80.2%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Tri-Center Elementary School has expanded 5%, going from 346 students in 2018 to 364 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 in 2025.

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