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Elk Horn, Iowa - 2 schools
An equity score of 71/100 ranks Exira-Elk Horn- Kimballton Comm Sch Dist #50 of 303 districts in Iowa (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $13,198 per pupil, Exira-Elk Horn- Kimballton Comm Sch Dist ranks #95 of 327 Iowa districts by per-pupil spending (Iowa districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Exira-Elk Horn- Kimballton Comm Sch Dist operates 2 public schools serving 394 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Iowa. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Shelby County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $13,198 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 327 Iowa districts by per-pupil spending. See how Iowa compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 47.7% local, 43.4% state, and 8.9% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 71/100, ranked #50 of 303 in Iowa against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
and 23.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 93.6% White, 3.3% Hispanic or Latino, 1.0% African American across the district's schools.
Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton Elementary accounts for 52.3% of all Exira-Elk Horn- Kimballton Comm Sch Dist student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Exira-Elk Horn- Kimballton Comm Sch Dist a distant remainder — means Exira-Elk Horn- Kimballton Comm Sch Dist-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Exira-Elk Horn- Kimballton Comm Sch Dist chronic absenteeism rate is 23.6% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Variation between sub-units within Exira-Elk Horn- Kimballton Comm Sch Dist is typically wider than the Exira-Elk Horn- Kimballton Comm Sch Dist-aggregate figure suggests.
Comparisons are relative to Exira-Elk Horn- Kimballton Comm Sch Dist's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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