Wapello Elementary School

Located at 505 N Cedar, in Wapello, Iowa, Wapello Elementary School is a tight-knit K-5 school that enrolls 229 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Wapello Comm School District. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so Wapello Elementary School sits 30% smaller than that benchmark.

Wapello Comm School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 518 students. Wapello Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Wapello Elementary School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%). Beyond that, the school records 14% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 19% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Louisa County's rate of about 46%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Wapello Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Iowa public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 82.3%; Wapello Elementary School posts 62.5%, -19.8 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Louisa County indicate the typical household earns roughly $77,354 per year, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Louisa County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,165 students), of which Wapello Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Wapello Senior High School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Wapello Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Wapello Elementary School at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 68.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wapello Elementary School has shrank 20%, going from 285 students in 2018 to 229 in 2025.

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