Public school / Primary
Northstar Elementary School
Knoxville, Iowa
- NCES ID
- 191584002132
- District
- Knoxville Comm School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Northstar Elementary School is a public primary school in Knoxville, Iowa, run by Knoxville Comm School District. It enrols 341 students — the 59787th 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
341
Teachers
24.0
Students per teacher
14.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
55.4%
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 Knoxville 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.
- 1Knoxville High School500 students
- 2West Elementary465 students
- 3Knoxville Middle School368 students
- 4Northstar Elementary School341 students
- Enrollment−4.7%
- Teachers+4.3%
- Students per teacher0.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+40.3%
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