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Enrollment
575
Elementary
DISTRICT 648 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JOHNSTON COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 191545000478
Beaver Creek Elementary School
8701 Lyndhurst, Johnston, IA 50131 · (515) 278-6228 · Polk County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL575 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 68% of Iowa public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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
14.3:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.2:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
25%
142 students
DISTRICT 26% · STATE 41%
Community
5
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 | 86 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 89 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 89 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 101 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 103 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 107 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (86) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (107).
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Beaver Creek Elementary School→Summit Middle School→Johnston Middle School→Johnston Senior High School
Based on grade levels within Johnston Comm School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
78.8%
IA avg 73.6% . -3.4pp since 2023
Math
83.3%
IA avg 70.9% . +0.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 83 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 78.8% | 83.3% |
| 2023-24 | 82.2% | 82.8% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: ISASP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
80.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
79.6%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 80% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Iowa's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Beaver Creek Elementary School
Beaver Creek Elementary School's state test result (80.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaver Creek Elementary School this school | 575 | 24.7% | 80.4% |
| Maple Grove Elementary School West Des Moines | 577 | 33.8% | 75.0% |
| Grant Ragan Elementary School Waukee | 666 | 28.2% | 78.7% |
| Eason Elementary School Waukee | 590 | 28.1% | 79.3% |
| Horizon Elementary Johnston | 613 | 35.9% | 74.0% |
| James Van Allen Elementary School North Liberty | 376 | 30.3% | 70.1% |
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 Beaver Creek Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Polk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 80.4% | #126 of 564 | #13 of 78 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 83.3% | #155 of 564 ▼ 8 | #18 of 78 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 78.8% | #168 of 564 ▼ 93 | #21 of 78 ▼ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 575 | #49 of 705 | #15 of 89 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #378 of 561 | #50 of 86 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.7% | #142 of 561 | #46 of 86 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 24.7% | #555 of 666 | #70 of 89 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.7% | #67 of 359 | #12 of 64 |
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
575
-8 (-1%) vs 2020
-30% since 2000-01, when it was 824
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 14.9:1
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 | 575 | 40.2 | 14.3:1 | 25% (142) |
| 2023-24 | 564 | 37.1 | 15.2:1 | 32% (178) |
| 2022-23 | 571 | 40.2 | 14.2:1 | 26% (148) |
| 2020-21 | 583 | 39 | 14.9:1 | 19% (113) |
| 2017-18 | 754 | 42.3 | 17.8:1 | 23% (171) |
| 2015-16 | 735 | 38 | 19.3:1 | 16% (114) |
| 2010-11 | 796 | 43 | 18.5:1 | 14% (113) |
| 2000-01 | 824 | 53 | 15.6:1 | 1% (10) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Beaver Creek Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 24% (754 to 575); teachers down 5% (42.3 to 40.2).
About Beaver Creek Elementary School
Beaver Creek Elementary School is an elementary school in Johnston, Iowa, according to federal school records. The school counted 575 students in 2024-25, covering kindergarten through 5. That puts enrollment 77% larger than the 325-student average for elementary schools in Iowa.
The district, Johnston Comm School District, operates 8 schools serving 7,339 students.
More than half of enrollment at Beaver Creek Elementary School is White: 59%. Next come 20% Black, 9% Asian, 8% Hispanic, and 4% multiracial. The county population is about 76% White. The diversity index for Beaver Creek Elementary School is 60%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Beaver Creek Elementary School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.3:1, with 40.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Iowa is about 13.7:1. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 25% at Beaver Creek Elementary School. Across public schools in Polk County, the average is 49%.
Among Iowa public elementary schools, Beaver Creek Elementary School outscored 68%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for Beaver Creek Elementary School is 79.6%, and its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 80.4%.
American Community Survey estimates for Polk County show that the median household earns about $83,576 a year, about 40% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Across Polk County, 137 public schools serve about 77,436 students.
Measured in a straight line, Johnston Senior High School is about 1.1 miles from Beaver Creek Elementary School. The five-mile area around Beaver Creek Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Beaver Creek Elementary School comes in 4th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Under the NCES locale system, Beaver Creek Elementary School is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 575, close to the 583 recorded in 2020-21.
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Polk County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
503,175
Census ACS
Median income
$83,576
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
137
77,436 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Johnston Comm School District
- Johnston Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,820 students
- Johnston Middle SchoolHigh · 1,161 students
- Summit Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,118 students
- Henry A Wallace Elementary SchoolElementary · 840 students
- Timber Ridge ElementaryElementary · 667 students
- Horizon ElementaryElementary · 613 students
Other schools in Johnston
- Johnston Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,820 students
- Johnston Middle SchoolHigh · 1,161 students
- Summit Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,118 students
- Henry A Wallace Elementary SchoolElementary · 840 students
- Timber Ridge ElementaryElementary · 667 students
- Horizon ElementaryElementary · 613 students
Other Beaver Creek Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Beaver Creek Elementary. Beaver Creek Elementary School is the largest of the 3.
- Beaver Creek Elementary SchoolDowningtown, PA · 531 students
- Beaver Creek Elementary SchoolTopmost, KY · 183 students
Nearby schools
- Johnston Senior High School1.1 mi · 1,820
- Summit Middle School1.1 mi · 1,118
- Horizon Elementary1.3 mi · 613
- Johnston Middle School1.7 mi · 1,161
- Henry A Wallace Elementary School1.9 mi · 840
- Timber Ridge Elementary1.9 mi · 667
Frequently asked questions
About Beaver Creek Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Beaver Creek Elementary School?
Beaver Creek Elementary School enrolls approximately 575 students in grades KG-05.
Is Beaver Creek Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Beaver Creek Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Beaver Creek Elementary School have?
Beaver Creek Elementary School employs 40 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.3:1.
How diverse is Beaver Creek Elementary School?
Beaver Creek Elementary School reports a student body of 59% White, 8% Hispanic, 20% Black, 9% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Beaver Creek Elementary School?
Beaver Creek Elementary School is overseen by Johnston Comm School District in Polk County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.