Viersen Early Learning Center

Viersen Early Learning Center operates as a close-knit elementary school in Pella, Iowa, run under Pella Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 137 students spanning grade pre-K. That puts it 58% leaner than the typical public school in Iowa, which averages around 325 students.

Pella Comm School District comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,462 students; Viersen Early Learning Center is among them.

On the student-mix side, Viersen Early Learning Center logs that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 4% Hispanic, 3% Black.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 27.4:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 9% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Marion County (around 29%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Across the wider county, census data for Marion County shows the typical household earns roughly $78,680 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Viersen Early Learning Center is one of 17 public schools in Marion County (combined enrollment of about 5,571 students).

Nearest neighbor: Madison Elementary School, around 0.1 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a small-town site.

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