Latimer, Iowa

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Latimer is a city in Franklin County, Iowa, United States. The population was 535 at the 2000 census.

1 Geography
2 Demographics
3 Education
4 External links

[edit] Geography

Latimer is located at 42°45′46″N, 93°22′8″W (42.762896, -93.368873)^GR1.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 6.1 km² (2.3 mi²), all land.

[edit] Demographics

As of the census^GR2 of 2000, there were 535 people, 210 households, and 144 families residing in the city. The population density was 88.3/km² (228.9/mi²). There were 225 housing units at an average density of 37.1/km² (96.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 87.29% White, 2.06% Native American, 9.35% from other races, and 1.31% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 17.57% of the population.

There were 210 households out of which 29.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.0% were married couples living together, 5.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.4% were non-families. 31.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 22.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.55 and the average family size was 3.15.

In the city the population was spread out with 26.4% under the age of 18, 6.5% from 18 to 24, 21.5% from 25 to 44, 17.0% from 45 to 64, and 28.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 42 years. For every 100 females there were 88.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 87.6 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $29,028, and the median income for a family was $35,833. Males had a median income of $30,313 versus $21,042 for females. The per capita income for the city was $14,332. About 2.9% of families and 6.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including none of those under age 18 and 8.7% of those age 65 or over.

CAL Community School has several state academic and sports achievements and is supported heavily by the community.

[edit] Education

CAL Community School provides quality PreK-12th grade education to the communities of Coulter, Alexander, and Latimer. All grades are located in the building just South of Latimer. From 1998-2005 Dows Community School whole grade shared with CAL. In 2005 Dows began sharing with Clarion-Goldfield Community Schools. At that time CAL re-established a full K-12 program. Facility improvements have recently been completed to the CAL Community School including a new chemistry/physics lab, art classroom, vocational ag space, daycare center and before/after school program. In 2001 another project was completed building an addition of 6 classrooms (including ICN and Computer labs), a new Library Media Center and renovating the old library into classroom space. The district is considering sharing it's junior high football program with Belmond-Klemme Community School. CAL serves over 300 students in grades K-12 and has experienced increasing enrollment for the past 2 years, something very rare in rural Iowa. CAL Community School