Public school / Primary
Cooper Elementary School
Fort Dodge, Iowa
- NCES ID
- 191182000721
- District
- Fort Dodge Comm School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Cooper Elementary School is a public primary school in Fort Dodge, Iowa, run by Fort Dodge Comm School District. It enrols 252 students — the 72028th largest of 1,337 public schools in Iowa.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
252
Teachers
21.0
Students per teacher
12.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
48.4%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Fort Dodge Comm School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Fort Dodge High School1,072 students
- 2Fort Dodge Middle School759 students
- 3Duncombe Elementary School461 students
- 4Early Childhood Center385 students
- 5Butler Elementary School379 students
- 6Cooper Elementary School252 students
- 7Feelhaver Elementary School219 students
- Enrollment−29.6%
- Teachers−8.7%
- Students per teacher−15.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+22.5%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory