Triumph Elementary School

As a minimally staffed elementary-level community in Fairbank, Iowa, Triumph Elementary School enrolls 42 students from grades K through 8, overseen by Jesup Comm School District. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so Triumph Elementary School sits 87% leaner than that benchmark.

Triumph Elementary School is one of 6 schools operated by Jesup Comm School District, a district that works with 1,024 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Triumph Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (100%). Compared to Buchanan County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. An estimated 7% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Buchanan County runs at roughly 29%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, Buchanan County reports that median household earnings sit near $78,236, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Triumph Elementary School is one of 18 public schools in Buchanan County (combined enrollment of about 3,231 students).

Prairie Grove Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Triumph Elementary School.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Triumph Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 16% since 2018, when it stood at 50 (now 42). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 26.3:1 in 2018 to 21.2:1 today.

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