Public school / Primary
Novak Elementary School
Marion, Iowa
- NCES ID
- 191722001006
- District
- Linn-Mar Comm School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Novak Elementary School is a public primary school in Marion, Iowa, run by Linn-Mar Comm School District. It enrols 371 students — the 55320th 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
371
Teachers
32.0
Students per teacher
11.6
Free or reduced-price lunch
27.0%
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 Linn-Mar 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.
- 1Linn-Mar High School2,271 students
- 2Excelsior Middle School617 students
- 3Boulder Peak Intermediate School586 students
- 4Echo Hill Elementary544 students
- 5Hazel Point Intermediate School540 students
- 6Oak Ridge School526 students
- 7Westfield Elementary School506 students
- 8Bowman Woods Elementary School439 students
- Enrollment+3.6%
- Teachers+39.1%
- Students per teacher−18.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−31.6%
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