Enrollment
305
Elementary
DISTRICT 252 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BURLINGTON COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 190579000180
Black Hawk Elementary School
2804 S 14th St, Burlington, IA 52601 · (319) 753-5300 · Des Moines County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL305 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 16% of Iowa public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
11.3:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.9:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
164 students
DISTRICT 53% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 70 | 23% |
| Grade 1 | 65 | 21% |
| Grade 2 | 47 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 60 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (70) is 11% larger than its 4th grade class (63).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · 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
Black Hawk Elementary School→Aldo Leopold Intermediate School→Edward Stone Middle School→Burlington Community High School
Based on grade levels within Burlington Comm School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
56.9%
IA avg 73.6% . -2.7pp since 2023
Math
59.0%
IA avg 70.9% . -5.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 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 are down about 5 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.9% | 59.0% |
| 2023-24 | 59.6% | 64.4% |
% 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
60.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.0%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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 Black Hawk Elementary School
Black Hawk Elementary School's state test result (60.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Hawk Elementary School this school | 305 | 53.8% | 60.5% |
| Sunnyside Elementary School Burlington | 298 | 56.0% | 74.7% |
| Erskine Elementary School Cedar Rapids | 308 | 53.2% | 70.1% |
| Jackson Elementary School Davenport | 322 | 56.8% | 48.2% |
| Neil Armstrong Elementary School Bettendorf | 268 | 53.0% | 64.5% |
| Hanawalt Elementary Des Moines | 312 | 49.4% | 65.9% |
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 Black Hawk Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Des Moines County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.5% | #458 of 564 | #6 of 7 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #481 of 564 ▼ 39 | #6 of 7 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.9% | #472 of 564 ▼ 32 | #6 of 7 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 305 | #365 of 705 | #4 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.3:1 | #55 of 561 | #2 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.2% | #153 of 561 | #3 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 53.8% | #174 of 666 | #4 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -34.7% | #18 of 359 | #2 of 6 |
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
305
+27 (+10%) vs 2020
+5% since 1990-91, when it was 291
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
was 10.7:1
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 | 305 | 27 | 11.3:1 | 54% (164) |
| 2023-24 | 290 | 26 | 11.2:1 | 62% (179) |
| 2022-23 | 316 | 23.9 | 13.2:1 | 72% (227) |
| 2020-21 | 278 | 26 | 10.7:1 | 67% (185) |
| 2017-18 | 467 | 33.5 | 13.9:1 | 58% (269) |
| 2015-16 | 492 | 33 | 14.9:1 | 58% (284) |
| 2010-11 | 438 | 30 | 14.6:1 | 49% (213) |
| 2000-01 | 276 | 19 | 14.5:1 | 21% (58) |
| 1990-91 | 291 | 14 | 20.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Black Hawk Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 35% (467 to 305); teachers down 19% (33.5 to 27).
About Black Hawk Elementary School
Students in Burlington, Iowa, attend Black Hawk Elementary School, a medium-sized elementary school. It educates 305 students in kindergarten through 4.
The district for Black Hawk Elementary School is Burlington Comm School District, with 8 schools and 3,140 students.
White students are the majority at Black Hawk Elementary School, with 60% of enrollment. After that, the student body is 19% Black, 12% multiracial, and 8% Hispanic. Among all residents of Des Moines County, the White share is about 86%. The school's diversity index is 58%, meaning two students picked at random have a 58% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
At Black Hawk Elementary School, 27 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 11.3:1. On average, elementary schools in Iowa have 13.7:1, compared with 11.3:1 here. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 54%. Compared with the 45% average for public schools in Des Moines County, the school's rate is higher.
allk12 grades Black Hawk Elementary School a C-. The grade compares the school only with Iowa public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Compared with Iowa schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Black Hawk Elementary School's results are 4.6 points below predicted: 60.5% against 65.0%.
County data help place the school in context: in Des Moines County, the median household income is $62,928, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 24% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Des Moines County is home to 15 public schools and about 5,632 public school students.
James Wilson Grimes School is located about 1.4 miles from Black Hawk Elementary School. The five-mile area around Black Hawk Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 61.2% proficiency; Black Hawk Elementary School posts 60.5%.
Its location is classified as Town: Remote by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Federal data show a 10% enrollment gain, from 278 in 2020-21 to 305 in 2024-25.
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Des Moines County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
38,487
Census ACS
Median income
$62,928
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
15
5,632 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Burlington Comm School District
- Burlington Community High SchoolHigh · 1,016 students
- Edward Stone Middle SchoolMiddle · 452 students
- Aldo Leopold Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 412 students
- Sunnyside Elementary SchoolElementary · 298 students
- North Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 268 students
- James Wilson Grimes SchoolElementary · 212 students
Other schools in Burlington
- Burlington Community High SchoolHigh · 1,016 students
- Edward Stone Middle SchoolMiddle · 452 students
- Aldo Leopold Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 412 students
- Sunnyside Elementary SchoolElementary · 298 students
- North Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 268 students
- James Wilson Grimes SchoolElementary · 212 students
Other Black Hawk Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 5 states are named Black Hawk Elementary. Black Hawk Elementary School is the 3rd largest of the 6.
- Black Hawk Elementary SchoolGlendale Hts, IL · 576 students
- BLACK HAWK ELEM.KAHOKA, MO · 342 students
- Black Hawk Elementary - 03Black Hawk, SD · 305 students
- Black Hawk Elementary SchoolSpringfield, IL · 234 students
- Black Hawk ElementarySouth Wayne, WI · 163 students
Nearby schools
- James Wilson Grimes School1.4 mi · 212
- Corse Early Childhood Center1.8 mi · 177
- Edward Stone Middle School1.8 mi · 452
- Burlington Community High School2.3 mi · 1,016
- North Hill Elementary School2.7 mi · 268
- Sunnyside Elementary School3.8 mi · 298
Frequently asked questions
About Black Hawk Elementary SchoolHow large is Black Hawk Elementary School?
Black Hawk Elementary School enrolls approximately 305 students in grades KG-04.
Is Black Hawk Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Black Hawk Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-04.
How many students per teacher at Black Hawk Elementary School?
Approximately 11.3:1 students per teacher at Black Hawk Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Black Hawk Elementary School?
Student demographics at Black Hawk Elementary School are roughly 60% White, 8% Hispanic, 19% Black, 0% Asian, 12% Two or more.
What district is Black Hawk Elementary School in?
Black Hawk Elementary School is part of Burlington Comm School District.
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