Winterset Elementary School

Winterset Elementary School is one of the high-enrollment primary schools in Winterset, Iowa, part of Winterset Comm School District, with 488 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 3. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so Winterset Elementary School sits 50% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 4 schools in Winterset Comm School District (1,625 students total), Winterset Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Winterset Elementary School reports that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Winterset Elementary School reports 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 33% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Winterset Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 75.5%, the actual is 71.9%, a residual of -3.6 points.

In the surrounding community, Madison County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,855 per year, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. In all, Madison County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,355 students), of which Winterset Elementary School is one.

Winterset Junior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Winterset Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Winterset Elementary School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 78.7%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Winterset Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 12% since 2018, when it stood at 556 (now 488).

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