Arthur Elementary School

Arthur Elementary School operates as a low-enrollment elementary campus in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, operated by Cedar Rapids Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 229 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so Arthur Elementary School sits 30% smaller than that benchmark.

Cedar Rapids Comm School District runs 35 schools in total, collectively educating 15,494 students. Arthur Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Arthur Elementary School shows that White students make up the majority at 56%; the rest comes out to 16% Black, 15% multiracial, 9% Hispanic, 3% Asian. By comparison, Linn County as a whole is about 84% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 70% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Linn County (around 40%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Arthur Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 56.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 63.4%.

Around the school, census data for Linn County shows median household earnings sit near $77,649, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Linn County runs 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,480 students), of which Arthur Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Trailside Elementary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Arthur Elementary School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 53.9%.

Arthur Elementary School operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 6-year window. Arthur Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 36% since 2018, when it stood at 357 (now 229). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 68% to 56%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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