Bess Streeter Aldrich Elementary

As a moderately sized elementary-level community in Cedar Falls, Iowa, Bess Streeter Aldrich Elementary educates 472 students from grades pre-K through 6, part of Cedar Falls Comm School District. Enrollment runs roughly 45% bigger than the state mean of about 325.

Within Cedar Falls Comm School District, which oversees 10 schools and 5,853 students, Bess Streeter Aldrich Elementary is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Bess Streeter Aldrich Elementary logs that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 5% multiracial, 3% Asian, 3% Hispanic, 3% Black.

Looking at school resources, Bess Streeter Aldrich Elementary records 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Bess Streeter Aldrich Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 10% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Black Hawk County's rate of about 52%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bess Streeter Aldrich Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 86.8%, the actual is 90.7%, a residual of +3.9 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Black Hawk County shows median household earnings sit near $66,417, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Black Hawk County's 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,224 students), Bess Streeter Aldrich Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Cedar Falls High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bess Streeter Aldrich Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 81.0%.

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