Stanton Elementary School

Stanton Elementary School is one of the small K-5 schools in Stanton, Iowa, part of Stanton Comm School District, with 145 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so Stanton Elementary School sits 55% smaller than that benchmark.

Stanton Comm School District runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 298 students. Stanton Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Stanton Elementary School shows that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Stanton Elementary School has 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 28.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Around 35% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Montgomery County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Stanton Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 74.3%, the actual is 81.5%, a residual of +7.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate median household income runs about $63,666, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Montgomery County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,473 students), of which Stanton Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Stanton High School, around 0.0 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 6 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Stanton Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 65.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 24%: 117 students in 2018 compared to 145 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 28.0:1 in 2025.

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