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Correctionville, Iowa - 2 schools
An equity score of 81/100 ranks River Valley Comm School District #22 of 303 districts in Iowa (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $14,570 per pupil, River Valley Comm School District ranks #36 of 327 Iowa districts by per-pupil spending (Iowa districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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$14,570
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District-Level NCES Analysis
River Valley Comm School District operates 2 public schools serving 342 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 Woodbury County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $14,570 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, 41.1% state, and 11.2% 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 81/100, ranked #22 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 137:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 29.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 91.7% White, 6.3% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is River Valley Elementary, enrolling 154 students (53% of the district's total enrollment).
River Valley Elementary accounts for 45.0% of all River Valley Comm School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of River Valley Comm School District a distant remainder — means River Valley Comm School District-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.
River Valley Comm School District student-counselor ratio is 137:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
River Valley Comm School District chronic absenteeism rate is 29.1% — 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 River Valley Comm School District is typically wider than the River Valley Comm School District-aggregate figure suggests.
Comparisons are relative to River Valley Comm School District's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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