Washington Elementary School

Washington Elementary School is a primary school of sizable scale in Mount Vernon, Iowa, operated by Mount Vernon Comm School District, hosting 543 students in grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so Washington Elementary School sits 67% larger than that benchmark.

Mount Vernon Comm School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,438 students; Washington Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Washington Elementary School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%); the rest breaks down as 4% multiracial, 4% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. The state averages about 13.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 20% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Linn County's rate of about 40%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Washington Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 82.2%, the actual is 81.6%, a residual of -0.6 points.

In the surrounding community, Linn County reports that the typical household earns roughly $77,649 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Linn County runs 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,480 students), of which Washington Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Mount Vernon Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Washington Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Washington Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 82.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Washington Elementary School has fell 5%, going from 571 students in 2018 to 543 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

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