Public school / Primary
Horizon Elementary
Johnston, Iowa
- NCES ID
- 191545000653
- District
- Johnston Comm School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Horizon Elementary is a public primary school in Johnston, Iowa, run by Johnston Comm School District. It enrols 647 students — the 22862nd 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
647
Teachers
43.0
Students per teacher
15.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
35.9%
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 Johnston 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.
- 1Johnston Senior High School1,790 students
- 2Johnston Middle School1,166 students
- 3Summit Middle School1,112 students
- 4Henry A Wallace Elementary School876 students
- 5Timber Ridge Elementary662 students
- 6Horizon Elementary647 students
- 7Lawson Elementary School607 students
- 8Beaver Creek Elementary School571 students
- Enrollment+80.7%
- Teachers+87.0%
- Students per teacher+5.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−9.1%
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