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Red Oak, Iowa - 3 schools
An equity score of 58/100 ranks Red Oak Comm School District #124 of 303 districts in Iowa (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $11,780 per pupil, Red Oak Comm School District ranks #234 of 327 Iowa districts by per-pupil spending (Iowa districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,044
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$11,780
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Red Oak Comm School District operates 3 public schools serving 1,044 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Iowa. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined, 1 elementary 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 Montgomery County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $11,780 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 327 Iowa districts by per-pupil spending. See how Iowa compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 38.5% local, 45.4% state, and 16.0% 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 58/100, ranked #124 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.
a 493:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 41.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 85.2% White, 10.8% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Red Oak Early Childhood Center, with a diversity index of 30.4/100.
Its largest campus is Inman Elementary School, enrolling 461 students (49% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Red Oak Early Childhood Center, at 51 students, a 9x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Inman Elementary School accounts for 44.2% of all Red Oak Comm School District student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Red Oak Comm School District-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. 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.
Red Oak Comm School District school enrollment varies 9.0× across entities
Red Oak Comm School District school enrollment ranges from 51 students (lowest) to 461 students (highest), a spread of 410 students. That spread reflects typical mixed-portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Red Oak Comm School District has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 54.8% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Red Oak Comm School District student-counselor ratio is 493:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Red Oak Comm School District chronic absenteeism rate is 41.9% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.