Enrollment
247
Elementary
DISTRICT 349 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DUBUQUE COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 190948000602
Audubon Elementary School
605 Lincoln Ave, Dubuque, IA 52001 · (563) 552-3300 · Dubuque County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL247 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 0% of Iowa public elementary schools
- FTest 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
8.5:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
196 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 41%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 23 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 39 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 35 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 48 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 36 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 39 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 27 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (39) is 44% larger than its 5th grade class (27).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · 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
43.5%
IA avg 73.6% . +12.8pp since 2023
Math
41.0%
IA avg 70.9% . +4.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores are up about 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.5% | 41.0% |
| 2023-24 | 30.7% | 36.5% |
% 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
35.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.3%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 52% 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 Audubon Elementary School
Audubon Elementary School's state test result (35.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audubon Elementary School this school | 247 | 79.4% | 35.1% |
| Cleveland Elementary School Cedar Rapids | 254 | 76.4% | 37.5% |
| Lincoln Elementary School Dubuque | 257 | 72.0% | 47.8% |
| Horizon Science Academy Des Moines Des Moines | 150 | 79.3% | 54.7% |
| Grant Elementary School Cedar Rapids | 312 | 68.3% | 44.7% |
| Cedar River Academy at Taylor Cedar Rapids | 355 | 76.1% | 37.0% |
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 Audubon Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Dubuque County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.1% | #558 of 564 | #15 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #554 of 564 ▲ 2 | #15 of 16 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.5% | #542 of 564 ▲ 19 | #15 of 16 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 247 | #485 of 705 | #16 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.5:1 | #3 of 561 | #2 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.8% | #40 of 561 | #2 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 79.4% | #42 of 666 | #2 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.5% | #318 of 359 | #6 of 7 |
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
247
+35 (+17%) vs 2020
-33% since 1990-91, when it was 370
Student : Teacher
8.5:1
was 7.3:1
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 | 247 | 29.2 | 8.5:1 | 79% (196) |
| 2023-24 | 268 | 32.1 | 8.3:1 | 71% (190) |
| 2022-23 | 281 | 31.9 | 8.8:1 | 77% (217) |
| 2020-21 | 212 | 29 | 7.3:1 | 87% (184) |
| 2017-18 | 256 | 29.6 | 8.7:1 | 70% (180) |
| 2015-16 | 289 | 31 | 9.3:1 | 85% (245) |
| 2010-11 | 259 | 30 | 8.6:1 | 82% (212) |
| 2000-01 | 371 | 31 | 12.0:1 | 59% (220) |
| 1990-91 | 370 | 25 | 14.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Audubon Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (256 to 247); teachers down 1% (29.6 to 29.2).
About Audubon Elementary School
Audubon Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary school in Iowa, with an address in Dubuque. Classes run from pre-K through 5, and the school has 247 students. Against the 325-student average for elementary schools in Iowa, enrollment here is 24% lower.
Audubon Elementary School reports to Dubuque Comm School District, which has 19 schools and 9,843 students.
At Audubon Elementary School, the largest share of students is White, at 43%. The school is also 27% Black, 16% multiracial, 9% Pacific Islander, and 5% Hispanic. That is lower than the 89% White share among all Dubuque County residents. Audubon Elementary School's diversity index is 71%, against a US figure of 70%.
Staffing totals 29.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 8.5:1. That is lower than the 13.7:1 average for elementary schools in Iowa. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 79%. The 39% average for public schools in Dubuque County is 40 points lower.
Audubon Elementary School is graded F by allk12, scoring above 0% of Iowa public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Audubon Elementary School trails its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests by 17.1 points (35.1% versus 52.3%), a bottom-10% result in Iowa on BeatsExpectations.
According to the American Community Survey, in Dubuque County, the median household income is $77,630, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 33%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Audubon Elementary School is one of 26 public schools in the county.
The shortest distance from Audubon Elementary School to another public school is about 0.4 miles, to Thomas Jefferson Middle School. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, Audubon Elementary School ranks 7th on average proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Small.
2024-25 enrollment was 247, a 17% rise from 212 in 2020-21. The school's ratio rose from 7.3:1 to 8.5:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Dubuque County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
99,030
Census ACS
Median income
$77,630
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
26
13,164 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Dubuque Comm School District
- Hempstead High SchoolHigh · 1,499 students
- Dubuque Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,490 students
- Eleanor Roosevelt Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,081 students
- George Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 584 students
- Eisenhower Elementary SchoolElementary · 568 students
- Carver Elementary SchoolElementary · 499 students
Other schools in Dubuque
- Hempstead High SchoolHigh · 1,499 students
- Dubuque Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,490 students
- Eleanor Roosevelt Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,081 students
- George Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 584 students
- Eisenhower Elementary SchoolElementary · 568 students
- Carver Elementary SchoolElementary · 499 students
Other Audubon Elementary schools
9 other US public schools in 9 states are named Audubon Elementary. Audubon Elementary School is the 9th largest of the 10.
- Audubon Elementary SchoolAudubon, IA · 252 students
- Audubon Elementary SchoolChicago, IL · 606 students
- Audubon Elementary SchoolMAGNOLIA, TX · 509 students
- Audubon Elementary SchoolBaton Rouge, LA · 495 students
- Audubon ElementaryFoster City, CA · 445 students
Nearby schools
- Thomas Jefferson Middle School0.4 mi · 402
- Marshall Elementary School0.7 mi · 323
- Prescott Elementary School0.8 mi · 352
- Lincoln Elementary School1.5 mi · 257
- Dubuque Senior High School1.6 mi · 1,490
- George Washington Middle School1.9 mi · 584
Frequently asked questions
About Audubon Elementary SchoolHow large is Audubon Elementary School?
Audubon Elementary School enrolls approximately 247 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Audubon Elementary School serve?
Audubon Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Audubon Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Audubon Elementary School is approximately 8.5:1 (29 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Audubon Elementary School?
Student demographics at Audubon Elementary School are roughly 43% White, 5% Hispanic, 27% Black, 16% Two or more.
What district is Audubon Elementary School in?
Audubon Elementary School is part of Dubuque Comm School District.
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