Van Buren County Community School District Douds Center

As a reasonably sized elementary school in Douds, Iowa, Van Buren County Community School District Douds Center educates 292 students from grades pre-K through 6, part of Van Buren County Comm School District.

Van Buren County Comm School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 821 students; Van Buren County Community School District Douds Center is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Van Buren County Community School District Douds Center reports that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Van Buren County Community School District Douds Center tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 51% of students at Van Buren County Community School District Douds Center qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Van Buren County Community School District Douds Center performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.4%, the actual is 69.5%, a residual of +3.0 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Van Buren County indicate the typical household earns roughly $61,161 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Van Buren County runs 3 public schools (combined enrollment of about 821 students), of which Van Buren County Community School District Douds Center is one.

The closest other public school is Van Buren County Community Middle & High School, roughly 9.5 miles away. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Van Buren County Community School District Douds Center at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 68.7%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Van Buren County Community School District Douds Center's enrollment has shrank 12% since 2018, when it stood at 333 (now 292). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

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