Public school / Primary
Madison Elementary School
Pella, Iowa
- NCES ID
- 192247001508
- District
- Pella Comm School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Madison Elementary School is a public primary school in Pella, Iowa, run by Pella Comm School District. It enrols 490 students — the 38481st 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
490
Teachers
34.0
Students per teacher
14.4
Free or reduced-price lunch
22.7%
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 Pella 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.
- 1Pella High School764 students
- 2Jefferson Intermediate526 students
- 3Madison Elementary School490 students
- 4Pella Middle School382 students
- 5Lincoln Elementary School329 students
- Enrollment+36.9%
- Teachers+47.8%
- Students per teacher+1.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−42.5%
Where this sits
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