Elementary · Iowa
Dexter Elementary School
Free meals for allDexter Elementary School, a public elementary school in Dexter, Iowa: grades 3–5, 186 students, 13.3 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of West Central Valley Comm School District.
Size and class size
Compared with elementary schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 186
- Teachers (FTE)
- 13.9
- Students per teacher
- 13.3
- Grades
- 3–5
- Elementary
Fewer students per teacher than 50% of elementary schools in Iowa
Median 13.3 · 668 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 64% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Smaller than 83% of elementary schools in Iowa
Median 320 · 669 schools compared
Smaller than 89% of elementary schools in the US
Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Elementary · Grades 3–5
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- Some virtual classes
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Distant rural area
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with West Central Valley Comm School District.
Location
- Address
- 803 Washington Street, Dexter, IA 50070
- Phone
- (515)789-4480
- City or town
- Dexter
- County
- Dallas County
Nearby elementary schools
The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Stuart Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–2 | 211 | 13.3 |
| Pre-K–5 | 328 | 12.1 | |
| 2–4 | 520 | 13.0 | |
| Pre-K–1 | 403 | 13.0 | |
| Pre-K–5 | 578 | 16.4 | |
| Pre-K–5 | 306 | 13.0 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
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