Riceville Elementary School

What Riceville Elementary School does

Riceville Community School District is a public PK-12 school district headquartered at 912 Woodland Ave, Riceville, Iowa, serving students in rural North Iowa. Operationally, the district runs two core instructional units — Riceville Elementary (PK-8) and Riceville Middle/High School (9-12) — supplemented by Little Cats Daycare (newborn to school age, open 5:30am to 6:00pm) and the Riceville Activity Center (RAC), a community athletics and fitness facility open 5am to 11pm via membership. The curriculum stack combines standard K-12 academics with career and technical education pathways in Agriculture/Food/Natural Resources, STEAM, Business/Marketing/Management, Health Sciences, and Human Services, plus fine arts (Band, Choir, Art, Graphic Design) and athletic programs.

The district is organized as a government entity under Iowa state law, governed by an elected Board of Education and led by Superintendent Barb Schwamman with Principals Heather Suckow (elementary) and Marcia Grimm (9-12). It is funded through local property taxes, state aid, and federal grants rather than commercial revenue. The only direct fee-based revenue stream disclosed is the meal program (student breakfast $1.90, student lunch $2.85, adult breakfast $3.00, adult lunch $5.00, milk $0.40). Technology infrastructure is modest: JMC Portal for parent/student registration and grades, Google Forms for enrollment intake, and standard digital curriculum resources; no proprietary platform or AI capability is evidenced.

Distribution is direct enrollment, augmented by Iowa's open enrollment program (March 1 deadline for Grades 1-12; September 1 for kindergarten and preschool special education). Marketing channels include the district website, Facebook, Twitter (@RCSDWildcats), YouTube, the Wildcat Wire weekly newsletter, and regional TV (KIMT, KWWL, KAAL, KTTC) and radio stations for weather-related notifications. The district self-attests to WCAG 2.0 web accessibility compliance and maintains a non-discrimination policy covering race, color, national origin, sex, disability, religion, creed, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, and socioeconomic status.

Name

Riceville Elementary School

Legal name

Riceville Community School District

Website

https://riceville.k12.ia.us

Company type

Public

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Riceville Community School District is a public PK-12 district in rural North Iowa operating elementary and middle/high schools alongside on-site daycare and a community activity center. It serves local and open-enrollment families through academic, CTE, and childcare programs funded by public sources.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

K-12 Public Education

NAICS

Elementary and Secondary Schools (611110), Elementary and Secondary Schools (6111), Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Child Day Care Services (8351)

akta.pro primary industry

Public Elementary Schools (EDAJAAAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Public School Districts (K–12) (EDADABAA), Community & Adult Education (Municipal/Community Schools) (EDAAAEAB)

Keywords

• K-12 public education
• Elementary school services
• Preschool programs
• Childcare daycare services
• Vocational career education

Headquarters

HQ city

Riceville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Meal Program Revenue: The district generates revenue through student and adult breakfast/lunch programs. Students pay $1.90 for breakfast and $2.85 for lunch, with adults paying $3.00 for breakfast and $5.00 for lunch. Additional milk purchases generate $0.40 per serving.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Riceville Elementary School delivers PK-8 public education to children in the Riceville, Iowa community, including core academics, fine arts, athletics, and extracurricular activities. The district-level portfolio adds middle/high school instruction (9-12), a state-certified preschool and in-school Little Cats Daycare, and career and technical education pathways in Agriculture, STEAM, Business, Health Sciences, and Human Services.

Product overview

Riceville Community School District operates as a PK-12 educational institution consisting of Riceville Elementary (PK-8) and Riceville Middle/High School (9-12), supplemented by Little Cats Daycare and the Riceville Activity Center (RAC). The district offers career and technical education programs in Agriculture, STEAM, Business, Health Sciences, and Human Services. Students have access to fine arts (Band, Choir, Art, Graphic Design), athletics, and various clubs and organizations. The district utilizes JMC Portal for school management and parent communication.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Riceville Elementary School

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Northeast Iowa Food BankcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRiceville Community School partners with Northeast Iowa Food Bank to provide the Backpack program, a free program that provides kid-friendly, non-perishable food for students most in need to eat over weekends and school breaks.
• Iowa Star ConferencecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRCSD is part of the Iowa Star Conference, which is made up of 15 Eastern Iowa school districts. The conference provides athletic and activity scheduling for participating schools.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• Boys & Girls Clubs of America: National youth-development organization offering after-school programming, recreation, and community services. Adjacent peer to Riceville's PK-12 + daycare + RAC programming on the youth-services and community-engagement dimension, though BGCA focuses on after-school rather than full-day K-12 delivery.

Broad incumbents

• YMCA of the USA: National community-based organization operating facilities with paid memberships, youth programming, and family services. Comparable to Riceville's Activity Center (RAC) as a community recreation and paid-membership model; however, YMCAs operate across all age groups and broader programming than RAC.
• Learning Care Group: Operates multiple childcare brands (Childtime, Tutor Time, La Petite Academy, Montessori Unlimited). Comparable to Little Cats Daycare as a multi-brand early-childhood operator with similar age-range coverage from infant through school-age.
• KinderCare Learning Companies: Largest US private early childhood education and childcare provider with thousands of centers. Directly comparable to Riceville's Little Cats Daycare along the childcare/early-education dimension, though operating nationally and as a for-profit chain versus Riceville's single-site school-district-operated model.
• Bright Horizons Family Solutions: Global provider of early education and childcare including employer-sponsored care. Comparable to Riceville's Little Cats Daycare as a scaled daycare/early-childhood operator, with broader employer-channel GTM.
• The Learning Experience: National daycare and preschool franchise with hundreds of locations. Comparable to Little Cats Daycare along the paid childcare/pre-K dimension though operating at national scale versus Riceville's single rural site.
• Primrose Schools: National accredited early-education franchise serving infants through pre-kindergarten and after-school age. Comparable to Little Cats Daycare as a privately-operated early-childhood education provider with similar age-coverage and curriculum-based positioning.

Emerging players

• KIPP Foundation: National network of public charter schools serving K-12 with college-prep focus. Comparable to Riceville on the K-12 public-education delivery dimension but operates as a charter network versus Riceville's traditional rural public school district.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/RCSDWildcats
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@RicevilleWildcats
• Facebookfacebook.com/ricevilleCSD
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/riceville-elementary-school

Compliance1 record

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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