Enrollment
387
Elementary
DISTRICT 332 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MARSHALLTOWN COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 191872001095
Woodbury Elementary School
8 N 7th Ave, Marshalltown, IA 50158 · (641) 754-1080 · Marshall County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL387 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 46% of Iowa public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Iowa public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
82%
318 students
DISTRICT 76% · STATE 41%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 45 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 65 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 70 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 72 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 66 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (65) is 6% smaller than its 4th grade class (69).
Student demographics
17%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 48% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Woodbury Elementary School→Lenihan Intermediate School→B R Miller Middle School→Marshalltown High School
Based on grade levels within Marshalltown Comm School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
65.6%
IA avg 73.6% . +8.1pp since 2023
Math
56.3%
IA avg 70.9% . -2.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores are up about 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.6% | 56.3% |
| 2023-24 | 57.5% | 58.9% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: ISASP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
59.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.8%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Iowa's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Woodbury Elementary School
Woodbury Elementary School's state test result (59.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodbury Elementary School this school | 387 | 82.2% | 59.8% |
| Cora B Darling Elementary Postville | 363 | 83.7% | 54.8% |
| Irving Elementary School Sioux City | 605 | 92.9% | 46.9% |
| Broadway Elementary School Denison | 288 | 70.8% | 70.7% |
| Anson Elementary School Marshalltown | 286 | 83.9% | 65.6% |
| Hunt Elementary School Sioux City | 451 | 92.9% | 52.3% |
Matched among Iowa elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Woodbury Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Marshall County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 59.8% | #461 of 564 | #7 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 56.3% | #494 of 564 ▼ 19 | #7 of 8 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.6% | #399 of 564 ▲ 56 | #5 of 8 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 387 | #237 of 705 | #2 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.0:1 | #451 of 561 | #9 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 16.8% | #467 of 561 | #8 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.2% | #36 of 666 | #3 of 9 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.3% | #156 of 168 | N/A |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
387
+43 (+13%) vs 2020
+12% since 1990-91, when it was 346
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
was 13.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 387 | 25.8 | 15.0:1 | 82% (318) |
| 2023-24 | 382 | 26.7 | 14.3:1 | 79% (300) |
| 2022-23 | 366 | 23.8 | 15.4:1 | 82% (299) |
| 2020-21 | 344 | 26 | 13.2:1 | 72% (249) |
| 2017-18 | 382 | 28.5 | 13.4:1 | 83% (317) |
| 2015-16 | 380 | 24 | 15.8:1 | 80% (304) |
| 2010-11 | 362 | 24 | 15.1:1 | 84% (304) |
| 2000-01 | 320 | 26 | 12.3:1 | 81% (258) |
| 1990-91 | 346 | 21 | 16.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Woodbury Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (382 to 387); teachers down 10% (28.5 to 25.8).
About Woodbury Elementary School
This page covers Woodbury Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school in Marshalltown, Iowa. Federal data show 387 students enrolled in pre-K through 4 in 2024-25.
Marshalltown Comm School District counts 5,099 students in its 10 schools, and Woodbury Elementary School is one of them.
Woodbury Elementary School is 91% Hispanic by enrollment. Next come 7% White. That compares with about 25% Hispanic among all Marshall County residents. The diversity index for Woodbury Elementary School is 17%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its ratio of 15.0:1 is based on 25.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in Iowa have an average ratio of 13.7:1. In all, 82% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Marshall County average 65%.
On the allk12 Grade, Woodbury Elementary School lands at B-, ahead of 46% of Iowa public elementary schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 50.8% for Woodbury Elementary School. The school posts 59.8%, 9.0 points above the prediction.
The school's county is Marshall County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $73,315, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 23%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. There are 17 public schools in the county, enrolling about 6,903, Woodbury Elementary School among them.
The closest school to Woodbury Elementary School is Rogers Elementary School, located about 0.9 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Woodbury Elementary School. In a group of 8 nearby schools with scores, Woodbury Elementary School ranks 4th on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Woodbury Elementary School is coded Town: Distant, for schools in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 13% rise, from 344 to 387. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 13.2:1 to 15.0:1.
People can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates and other school topics. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Marshall County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
40,114
Census ACS
Median income
$73,315
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
17
6,903 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Marshalltown Comm School District
- Marshalltown High SchoolHigh · 1,629 students
- B R Miller Middle SchoolMiddle · 736 students
- Lenihan Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 655 students
- Fisher Elementary SchoolElementary · 368 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolElementary · 358 students
- J C Hoglan Elementary SchoolElementary · 337 students
Other schools in Marshalltown
- Marshalltown High SchoolHigh · 1,629 students
- B R Miller Middle SchoolMiddle · 736 students
- Lenihan Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 655 students
- Fisher Elementary SchoolElementary · 368 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolElementary · 358 students
- J C Hoglan Elementary SchoolElementary · 337 students
Other Woodbury Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 5 states are named Woodbury Elementary. Woodbury Elementary School is the 4th largest of the 6.
- Woodbury ElementaryIrvine, CA · 1,095 students
- Woodbury Elementary SchoolShaker Heights, OH · 642 students
- WOODBURY ELEMENTARYWOODBURY, MN · 483 students
- Woodbury ElementaryGarden Grove, CA · 337 students
- Woodbury Elementary SchoolWoodbury, VT · 54 students
Nearby schools
- Rogers Elementary School0.9 mi · 253
- Marshalltown Virtual Academy1.0 mi · 90
- Anson Elementary School1.1 mi · 286
- Marshalltown High School1.4 mi · 1,629
- Lenihan Intermediate School1.5 mi · 655
- B R Miller Middle School1.5 mi · 736
Frequently asked questions
About Woodbury Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Woodbury Elementary School?
Woodbury Elementary School enrolls approximately 387 students in grades PK-04.
What grades does Woodbury Elementary School serve?
Woodbury Elementary School serves grades PK-04.
How many students per teacher at Woodbury Elementary School?
Approximately 15.0:1 students per teacher at Woodbury Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Woodbury Elementary School?
At Woodbury Elementary School, the student body is approximately 7% White, 91% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Woodbury Elementary School in?
Woodbury Elementary School is part of Marshalltown Comm School District.
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