Elementary · Regular · Grades 3 to 5
Fahrney Elementary, Ottumwa, IA
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 490
- Teachers (FTE)
- 30.0
- Students per teacher
- 16.3
- Grades
- 3 to 5
This school's ratio is 1.1 higher than the district figure of 15.2. The Iowa average across schools is 14.4. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 520 South Milner, Ottumwa, IA 52501
- Phone
- (641)684-6597
- District
- Ottumwa Comm School District
- County
- Wapello County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- New
- Charter
- No
- Locale
- Town: Remote
- NCES school ID
- 192211002337
School meals
- Free lunch
- 228
- Reduced-price lunch
- 16
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 24449.8% of enrollment.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other elementary schools in Ottumwa Comm School District
- Pickwick Early Childhood Center 560 students
- Wilson Elementary School 335 students
- Douma Elementary School 327 students
- Horace Mann Elementary School 250 students
- James Elementary School 249 students
- Eisenhower Elementary School 248 students
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.