Green Mountain’s public schools score below 88% of Iowa districts
The public schools Green Mountain’s kids attend trail 88% of Iowa’s districts on state tests. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
What Green Mountain’s schools are like
Green Mountain’s schools are very small
All of Green Mountain’s public school students add up to 271 children, with about 14 per teacher. That means real individual attention, but also that a single class can swing the scores from year to year. Every school ↓
The gap is biggest in math
Reading proficiency is 68%, level with the state. Math is 50%, 14 points below the state. Test scores ↓
Low even next to similar towns
It isn’t only a matter of income. Among the 59 Iowa towns with similar household incomes, Green Mountain still scores better than just 15%. How it compares ↓
Green Mountain has its own elementary school and shares the rest
Green Mountain’s own school is GMG Elementary School, for pre-K through grade 6. From grade 7, students go to GMG Secondary School in Garwin. The middle school earns the best grade on the path (B−); the elementary school earns the lowest (D). See the path ↓
This summary is written from the data on this page. Test scores are from 2020–21, a pandemic year, so treat small gaps with caution.
How Green Mountain compares
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Iowa’s state tests against the state average. Spending and class size are shown but don’t count. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids through every district that serves it, weighted by students tested.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are compared with the rest of Iowa only. A+ is the top 5%, A the next 10%, A− the next 10%, the B range the next 30%, the C range the next 30%, D the rest.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income, so we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Where will my kid go?
Pick a grade. These are the public schools that serve Green Mountain.
The district
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Close to the state in reading
Every school in Green Mountain
1 school. Grades are based on state tests and graduation. Any other ratings are made by neighbors.
Parents talk
What Green Mountain families are saying about school.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Colleges near Green Mountain
There’s no college in Green Mountain, but 2 are within 30 miles. The closest is Marshalltown Community College in Marshalltown, 8.4 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Green Mountain. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus · College Scorecard · IPEDS.
School data: U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts, F-33 school finance). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results, graded within Iowa. Stars are from neighbors.