Prairie Valley Comm School District

Gowrie, Iowa

Prairie Valley Comm School District runs 2 public schools in Iowa, enrolling 561 students — the 10414th largest district in the country.

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At a glance

Schools

2schools

9136th nationally, tied with 2,808

Enrollment

561students

10414th nationally, tied with 10

Schools listed here

2in the directory

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The schools

Every measure NCES publishes for each of them, rather than a summary line — a district this size and its schools are close to the same thing, and the figures are what separate the two pages.

Prairie Valley Elementary School

Farnhamville

Enrollment: 23074686th nationally
Teachers: 16.073651st nationally
Students per teacher: 14.441726th nationally
Free or reduced-price lunch: 43.9%56699th nationally

Southeast Valley High School

Gowrie

Enrollment: 33161196th nationally
Teachers: 22.060182nd nationally
Students per teacher: 15.047506th nationally
Free or reduced-price lunch: 39.0%61509th nationally

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The county it serves

Webster County in the American Community Survey — the conditions this district works in, measured by the Census Bureau rather than by the Department of Education.

Population

36,886

Median household income

$68,975

Poverty rate

12.9%

Bachelor's degree or higher

22.0%

Everything recorded for Webster County →

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Where this sits

Geographic context

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Sources & licence

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics: Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)
Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

Data as of September 1, 2022.