Beaver Creek Elementary School

Located at 8701 Lyndhurst, in Johnston, Iowa, Beaver Creek Elementary School is a sprawling elementary-level community that enrolls 575 students (grades K through 5), part of Johnston Comm School District. That puts it 77% bigger than the typical public school in Iowa, which averages around 325 students.

Beaver Creek Elementary School is one of 8 schools operated by Johnston Comm School District, a district that works with 7,339 students overall.

On demographics, Beaver Creek Elementary School logs that 59% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 20% Black, 9% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 76% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 25% of students at Beaver Creek Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Polk County (around 49%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Beaver Creek Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 79.6%, the actual is 80.4%, a residual of +0.8 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Polk County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,576 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Beaver Creek Elementary School is one of 137 public schools in Polk County (combined enrollment of about 77,436 students).

Nearest neighbor: Johnston Senior High School, around 1.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Beaver Creek Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 78.3%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Beaver Creek Elementary School has ticked down 24%, going from 754 students in 2018 to 575 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 71% to 59% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Beaver Creek Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.