Elementary · Iowa

Pickwick Early Childhood Center

Free meals for all

Pickwick Early Childhood Center, a public elementary school in Ottumwa, Iowa: grades pre-k–k, 560 students, 22.6 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Ottumwa 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: 560
Teachers (FTE): 24.7
Students per teacher: 22.6
Grades: Pre-K–K; Elementary

More students per teacher than 99% of elementary schools in Iowa

Median 13.3 · 668 schools compared

More students per teacher than 93% of elementary schools in the US

Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared

Larger than 91% of elementary schools in Iowa

Median 320 · 669 schools compared

Larger than 75% of elementary schools in the US

Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared

State test results

No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.

What it offers

Grades: Elementary · Grades Pre-K–K
Type: District school · Regular
Instruction: Some virtual classes
Meals: Free breakfast and lunch for every student
Area: Remote town
Run by: Ottumwa Comm School District

Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Ottumwa Comm School District.

Location

Address: 1306 W Williams, Ottumwa, IA 52501
Phone: (641)684-7179
City or town: Ottumwa
County: Wapello County

Quality of life in Ottumwa Schools in Ottumwa

Nearby elementary schools

The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.

School	Grades	Students	Students / teacher
Fahrney ElementaryFree meals for all	3–5	490	15.9	0.7 mi
Douma Elementary SchoolFree meals for all	1–2	327	11.3	0.8 mi
Wilson Elementary SchoolFree meals for all	K–5	335	12.4	2.5 mi
James Elementary SchoolFree meals for all	K–5	249	13.1	2.6 mi
Horace Mann Elementary SchoolFree meals for all	K–5	250	13.1	3.3 mi
Eisenhower Elementary SchoolFree meals for all	K–5	248	13.7	4.5 mi

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).

Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.

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