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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Adams Elementary School this year?
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Enrollment
498
Elementary
DISTRICT 335 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DAVENPORT COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 190858000456
Adams Elementary School
3029 N Division Street, Davenport, IA 52804 · (563) 723-6100 · Scott County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL498 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 5% of Iowa public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Iowa public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
57%
285 students
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 41%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 79 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 78 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 82 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 91 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 88 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 80 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (79) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (80).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 48% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
49.0%
IA avg 73.6% . +0.1pp since 2023
Math
49.4%
IA avg 70.9% . +2.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.0% | 49.4% |
| 2023-24 | 48.9% | 47.0% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: ISASP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of IA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
48.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.3%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 63% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Adams Elementary School
Adams Elementary School's state test result (48.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adams Elementary School this school | 498 | 57.2% | 48.8% |
| Garfield Elementary School Davenport | 393 | 59.0% | 47.9% |
| Truman Elementary School Davenport | 434 | 58.3% | 53.1% |
| Kenwood Leadership Academy School Cedar Rapids | 386 | 60.4% | 59.0% |
| Harrison Elementary School Davenport | 459 | 52.1% | 66.6% |
| Fillmore Elementary School Davenport | 388 | 63.7% | 51.8% |
Matched among Iowa elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Adams Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Scott County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.8% | #507 of 564 | #26 of 31 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.4% | #523 of 564 ▲ 8 | #27 of 31 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #516 of 564 ▼ 12 | #28 of 31 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 498 | #103 of 705 | #6 of 34 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.7:1 | #317 of 561 | #14 of 29 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.9% | #38 of 561 | #6 of 29 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 57.2% | #151 of 666 | #7 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.3% | #222 of 359 | #7 of 16 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
498
-48 (-9%) vs 2020
-24% since 1990-91, when it was 652
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
was 15.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 498 | 36.3 | 13.7:1 | 57% (285) |
| 2023-24 | 585 | 39.7 | 14.7:1 | 59% (344) |
| 2022-23 | 511 | 33 | 15.5:1 | 54% (278) |
| 2020-21 | 546 | 36 | 15.2:1 | 58% (318) |
| 2017-18 | 555 | 37.3 | 14.9:1 | 61% (339) |
| 2015-16 | 564 | 33 | 17.1:1 | 60% (339) |
| 2010-11 | 578 | 32 | 18.1:1 | 48% (280) |
| 2000-01 | 527 | 34 | 15.5:1 | 18% (95) |
| 1990-91 | 652 | 36 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Adams Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (555 to 498); teachers down 3% (37.3 to 36.3).
About Adams Elementary School
Adams Elementary School is a large elementary school in Davenport, Iowa, under Davenport Comm School District. Students in kindergarten through 5 attend, and enrollment is 498 students. The school's enrollment is 53% above the 325 average for elementary schools in Iowa.
The district for Adams Elementary School is Davenport Comm School District, with 27 schools and 12,812 students.
Enrollment at Adams Elementary School is mixed, with White students the largest group at 41%. Beyond that, enrollment is 29% Black, 16% Hispanic, and 14% multiracial. In Scott County overall, about 79% of residents are White. The chance that two students picked at random at Adams Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 71%.
Teacher staffing is 36.3 full-time equivalents, or about 13.7 students per teacher. Elementary schools in Iowa have a similar average ratio of 13.7:1. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 57%. Across public schools in Scott County, the average is 38%.
allk12 grades Adams Elementary School a D. The grade compares the school only with Iowa public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
BeatsExpectations places Adams Elementary School in the bottom 10% of Iowa schools. The measure fits a line through proficiency and free or reduced-price lunch share for each state, and this school sits 14.5 points below it (48.8% actual, 63.3% predicted).
County data help place the school in context: in Scott County, median household income is about $78,277, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 37% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 7%. The public schools of Scott County number 53 and enroll about 26,100.
Nearby, Williams Middle School is about 0.1 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. On average proficiency, Adams Elementary School is 2nd of 7 nearby schools with test data.
Locale data from NCES put Adams Elementary School inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000 (City: Mid-size).
Federal counts put enrollment at 546 in 2020-21 and 498 in 2024-25, a 9% decrease. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (13.7:1) than in 2020-21 (15.2:1).
Parents and students can post about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs at Adams Elementary School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Scott County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
174,608
Census ACS
Median income
$78,277
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
53
26,100 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Davenport Comm School District
- West High SchoolHigh · 1,304 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 1,288 students
- North High SchoolHigh · 1,190 students
- Sudlow Middle SchoolMiddle · 734 students
- Wood Middle SchoolMiddle · 629 students
- Williams Middle SchoolMiddle · 577 students
Other schools in Davenport
- West High SchoolHigh · 1,304 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 1,288 students
- North High SchoolHigh · 1,190 students
- Sudlow Middle SchoolMiddle · 734 students
- Wood Middle SchoolMiddle · 629 students
- Williams Middle SchoolMiddle · 577 students
Other Adams Elementary schools
40 other US public schools in 20 states are named Adams Elementary. Adams Elementary School is the 7th largest of the 41.
- Adams Elementary SchoolCarroll, IA · 232 students
- ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLLINCOLN, NE · 767 students
- Adams Elementary SchoolARLINGTON, TX · 743 students
- Adams Elementary SchoolMESA, AZ · 667 students
- Adams ElementaryCary, NC · 655 students
Nearby schools
- Williams Middle School0.1 mi · 577
- Mid City High0.8 mi · 306
- Children's Village West1.3 mi · 296
- Wilson Elementary School1.4 mi · 507
- Jefferson Elementary School1.4 mi · 384
- Madison Elementary School1.6 mi · 318
Frequently asked questions
About Adams Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Adams Elementary School?
Adams Elementary School enrolls approximately 498 students in grades KG-05.
Is Adams Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Adams Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Adams Elementary School?
Approximately 13.7:1 students per teacher at Adams Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Adams Elementary School?
Student demographics at Adams Elementary School are roughly 41% White, 16% Hispanic, 29% Black, 1% Asian, 14% Two or more.
Is Adams Elementary School public or private?
Adams Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Davenport Comm School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.