Best Public Schools in Calamus, IA

Summary:

The city of Calamus, Iowa is home to a single school, the Calamus-Wheatland Elementary Attendance Center, which serves grades PK-6 and is part of the Calamus-Wheatland Community School District. This school stands out for its strong academic performance, with proficiency rates in English Language Arts and Mathematics that generally exceed state averages across grades 3-6.

The Calamus-Wheatland Elementary Attendance Center has a total enrollment of 218 students, with a predominantly White student population (89.45%). The school's 3rd grade proficiency rates in 2023-2024 were 78.1% in ELA and 96.9% in Math, compared to state averages of 64.2% and 76.3%, respectively. However, the school's 5th grade Science proficiency rate of 57.7% was slightly below the state average of 59.6%.

Despite the school's academic strengths, the Calamus-Wheatland Community School District is ranked 202 out of 309 districts in Iowa and is rated 2 stars out of 5 by SchoolDigger. The Calamus-Wheatland Elementary Attendance Center has a similar ranking, placing 193 out of 557 Iowa elementary schools in 2023-2024 and receiving a 3-star rating. The school's per-student spending for the 2018-2019 school year was $12,879, and the student-teacher ratio for the 2022-2023 school year was 11.5 to 1. In the 2022-2023 school year, 38.07% of students at the Calamus-Wheatland Elementary Attendance Center were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2024)				Ranking (2023)				ISASP English Language Arts (2024)				ISASP Mathematics (2024)				ISASP Science (2024)	Per Pupil Expenditures (2019)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2024)	Statewide Rank (2024)	State Percentile (2024)	SchoolDigger Rating (2024)	Average Standard Score (2023)	Statewide Rank (2023)	State Percentile (2023)	Rank Change from Previous Year	ISASP English Language Arts 3rd Grade	ISASP English Language Arts 4th Grade	ISASP English Language Arts 5th Grade	ISASP English Language Arts 6th Grade	ISASP Mathematics 3rd Grade	ISASP Mathematics 4th Grade	ISASP Mathematics 5th Grade	ISASP Mathematics 6th Grade	ISASP Science 5th Grade	Per Pupil Expenditures Total	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Sub-total from State/Local Funds
Calamus-Wheatland Elementary Attendance Center	Public	PK, KG-6	80 S 2nd St	Calamus	52729	Clinton County	Calamus-Wheatland Community School District	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(563) 246-2221	218	19	11.3	37.6%	206 (94.5%)	1 (0.5%)	5 (2.3%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (0.5%)	5 (2.3%)	65.8	193^rd of 557 public elementary schools	65.4%		53.6	301^st of 565 public elementary schools	46.7%	108	78.1	76.9	76.9	69.6	96.9	76.9	69.2	87.0	57.7	$12,879	$447	$12,432

Cities Near Calamus

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Wheatland	4.29 mi	1	298^th
Lowden	9.19 mi	1	237^th
Donahue	9.9 mi	1	30^th
De Witt	10.77 mi	4	148^th
Long Grove	12.58 mi	1	28^th

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Iowa Department of Education.

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