Tripoli Elementary School

Tripoli Elementary School is one of the close-knit elementary schools in Tripoli, Iowa, overseen by Tripoli Comm School District, with 219 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 33% below the state mean of about 325.

Tripoli Comm School District comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 389 students; Tripoli Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Tripoli Elementary School reports that nearly all students (94%) are White. Other groups include 3% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.2:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 39% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Bremer County (around 21%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Tripoli Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 72.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 80.6%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Bremer County) shows that median household earnings sit near $86,784, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Bremer County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,346 students), Tripoli Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Tripoli Middle/Sr High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Tripoli Elementary School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 82.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 20%: 182 students in 2018 compared to 219 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 today.

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