The top reported proficiency rate is 75% in Math. The lowest is 61% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Davis County Elementary
Davis County Elementary sits in Bloomfield, a small rural county seat in southeastern Iowa not far from the Missouri border. The town is built around a historic courthouse square, with the Davis County Courthouse at its center and a compact grid of residential streets fanning outward. Health care, county government, and the school district itself are the main local employers. The population has seen slow, steady growth in recent years after decades of relative stability. Bloomfield’s civic anchors include the courthouse, the public library, and the county fairgrounds, which host annual community events. The school is the only elementary in the Davis County Community School District, serving students from pre-kindergarten through fourth grade.
This is a regular public school, and its enrollment is moderate for a school of this grade band. The student body is heavily white, a reflection of the broader community. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. State testing data for math and English language arts is available for the grades that are tested, and participation rates on those assessments were high. In math, a clear majority of students met the state’s proficiency standard. In English language arts, the share of students reaching that benchmark was lower, though still above half. Because this is the first year of available data from the state’s current testing program, there is no multi-year trend to compare against yet. A parent may want to discuss the reading and writing support available at the school, particularly given that the proficiency rate in English language arts, while not weak, sits at a level that some families will want to understand more fully.
The school serves only the early elementary years, ending at fourth grade, so there is no graduation rate to report and no high school course offerings or postsecondary pathway data to evaluate. This is a straightforward elementary school focused on building foundational academic skills. No information was available on the school’s special education identification rate or its English learner population. Given the small number of students who are non-white, the English learner population is likely very small, but the data does not confirm this. Similarly, no chronic absenteeism data or staffing ratios were available in the material provided. These are gaps a parent may want to explore directly with the school or the district.
Because Davis County has only one school district, no meaningful comparison can be drawn against other districts in the county. The school’s academic results are best understood in the context of the state rather than a local peer set.
The district brief turned up no major recent changes of lasting impact, such as bond measures, boundary redraws, or leadership turnover. The district appears to have been operating without significant disruption.
For a family considering Bloomfield, this school offers a standard early-elementary experience in a small-town setting. The community is tight-knit and slow-growing. The math results are solid, the reading results are adequate but not as strong, and the lack of trend data means there is no track record of improvement or decline to evaluate. A parent who values a simple, neighborhood-based elementary school in a rural county seat will find a straightforward option here. A parent concerned about reading outcomes at the early grades will want to follow up on what interventions or support the school provides.
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