Central City Elementary School

Central City Elementary School is a K-5 school of intimate scale in Central City, Iowa, run under Central City Comm School District, enrolling 170 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so Central City Elementary School sits 48% leaner than that benchmark.

Central City Elementary School is one of 2 schools operated by Central City Comm School District, a district that teaches 370 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Central City Elementary School reports that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 84% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Central City Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 34% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Central City Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 75.2%, the actual is 72.8%, a residual of -2.4 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Linn County indicate the typical household earns roughly $77,649 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Central City Elementary School is one of 83 public schools in Linn County (combined enrollment of about 36,480 students).

Central City High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 7 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Central City Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 78.9%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Central City Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 13% since 2018, when it stood at 195 (now 170). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 today.

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