Summary:
The 52211 zip code is home to two schools, Brooklyn-Guernsey-Malcom Elementary School and Brooklyn-Guernsey-Malcom Junior-Senior High School, both part of the Brooklyn-Guernsey-Malcom Community School District. The district is ranked 54 out of 313 in Iowa and has a 4-star rating from SchoolDigger, indicating a strong educational system.
The standout school in this area is the Brooklyn-Guernsey-Malcom Elementary School, which consistently achieves high test scores, with the majority of its students scoring proficient or better in English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science across all grade levels. In the 2024-2025 school year, the school's 4th, 5th, and 6th-grade students achieved proficiency rates of 88.6%, 86.8%, and 90.9% respectively in English Language Arts, significantly outperforming the state average. Similarly, in Mathematics, the school's 6th-grade students achieved a 87.9% proficiency rate, well above the state average. The elementary school also has a relatively low chronic absenteeism rate of 21.6% and a student-teacher ratio of 12.8, both positive indicators of a healthy learning environment.
The Brooklyn-Guernsey-Malcom Junior-Senior High School has shown improvement in its statewide ranking, moving from 200th out of 336 Iowa high schools in 2022-2023 to 78th out of 340 in 2024-2025. The school had an 88.3% four-year graduation rate in the 2023-2024 school year, and both the elementary and junior-senior high schools had a chronic absenteeism rate of 21.6% in the same year. The junior-senior high school spent $15,368 per student in the 2018-2019 school year, compared to $12,000 per student at the elementary school, and had a student-teacher ratio of 15.3.
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