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Best kept secret at Bloomer Elementary School?
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Enrollment
396
Elementary
DISTRICT 368 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COUNCIL BLUFFS COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 190822000411
Bloomer Elementary School
210 S 7th Street, Council Bluffs, IA 51501 · (712) 328-6519 · Pottawattamie County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL396 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 10% 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.
- DBeats 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
13.2:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
190 students
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 41%
Community
1
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 | 41 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 43 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 54 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 70 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 62 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 57 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (43) is 25% smaller than its 5th grade class (57).
Student demographics
48%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · 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
63.7%
IA avg 73.6% . +10.2pp since 2023
Math
69.8%
IA avg 70.9% . +6.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 63.7% | 69.8% |
| 2023-24 | 53.5% | 62.9% |
% 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
57.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.0%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 68% 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 Bloomer Elementary School
Bloomer Elementary School's state test result (57.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bloomer Elementary School this school | 396 | 48.0% | 57.5% |
| Harding Elementary School Mason City | 387 | 45.2% | 66.8% |
| Franklin Elementary School Council Bluffs | 421 | 45.4% | 61.0% |
| Roosevelt Elementary School Council Bluffs | 455 | 44.6% | 54.4% |
| Edison Elementary School Council Bluffs | 384 | 46.4% | 59.8% |
| Carter Lake Elementary School Carter Lake | 301 | 45.5% | 51.6% |
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 Bloomer Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Pottawattamie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.5% | #471 of 564 | #12 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 69.8% | #383 of 564 ▲ 66 | #10 of 16 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.7% | #419 of 564 ▲ 55 | #11 of 16 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 396 | #223 of 705 | #9 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #244 of 561 | #4 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.2% | #226 of 561 | #4 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.0% | #246 of 666 | #2 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.0% | #257 of 359 | #9 of 11 |
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
396
+9 (+2%) vs 2020
-38% since 1990-91, when it was 638
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 15.5:1
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 | 396 | 30.1 | 13.2:1 | 48% (190) |
| 2023-24 | 427 | 30.1 | 14.2:1 | 60% (258) |
| 2022-23 | 422 | 31.2 | 13.5:1 | 71% (300) |
| 2020-21 | 387 | 25 | 15.5:1 | 81% (312) |
| 2017-18 | 426 | 31 | 13.8:1 | 79% (336) |
| 2015-16 | 484 | 29 | 16.7:1 | 78% (379) |
| 2010-11 | 497 | 33 | 15.1:1 | 66% (327) |
| 2000-01 | 642 | 35 | 18.3:1 | 44% (281) |
| 1990-91 | 638 | 29 | 22.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bloomer Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (426 to 396); teachers down 3% (31 to 30.1).
About Bloomer Elementary School
Bloomer Elementary School is an elementary school in Council Bluffs, Iowa, according to federal school records. Its 396 students are spread across pre-K through 5. The typical figure for elementary schools in Iowa is about 325 students.
District-wide, Council Bluffs Comm School District has 15 schools and 8,299 students.
White students are the majority at Bloomer Elementary School, with 69% of enrollment. Other groups make up 17% Hispanic, 7% Black, and 5% multiracial. Pottawattamie County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school's share is lower. Pick two students at random and there is a 48% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teacher staffing is 30.1 full-time equivalents, or about 13.2 students per teacher. That is close to the 13.7:1 average for elementary schools in Iowa. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 48%. Compared with the 40% average for public schools in Pottawattamie County, the school's rate is higher.
allk12 grades Bloomer Elementary School a D. The grade compares the school only with Iowa public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
On allk12's BeatsExpectations measure, Bloomer Elementary School is among the bottom 10% of schools in Iowa. Predicted: 68.0%. Actual: 57.5%.
Among Pottawattamie County residents, the median household income is $73,602, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 24%, and about 8% of people live in poverty. Besides Bloomer Elementary School, Pottawattamie County has 34 other public schools.
Anne E. Nelson Early Learning Center is the public school closest to Bloomer Elementary School, about 0.6 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, Bloomer Elementary School places 5th out of 8 schools in its immediate area.
Bloomer Elementary School falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 396, close to the 387 recorded in 2020-21. Federal data show the ratio falling from 15.5:1 to 13.2:1.
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Pottawattamie County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
93,424
Census ACS
Median income
$73,602
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
35
15,270 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Council Bluffs Comm School District
- Abraham Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,333 students
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,146 students
- Gerald W Kirn Middle SchoolMiddle · 913 students
- Woodrow Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 855 students
- College View ElementaryElementary · 488 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 455 students
Other schools in Council Bluffs
- Abraham Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,333 students
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,146 students
- Lewis Central Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,020 students
- Gerald W Kirn Middle SchoolMiddle · 913 students
- Titan Hill Intermediate SchoolElementary · 901 students
- Woodrow Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 855 students
Other Bloomer Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Bloomer Elementary. Bloomer Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Bloomer ElementaryBloomer, WI · 521 students
Nearby schools
- Anne E. Nelson Early Learning Center0.6 mi · 119
- Roosevelt Elementary School0.9 mi · 455
- Longfellow Elementary School1.1 mi · 431
- Edison Elementary School1.2 mi · 384
- Woodrow Wilson Middle School1.2 mi · 855
- Hoover Elementary School1.4 mi · 401
Frequently asked questions
About Bloomer Elementary SchoolHow large is Bloomer Elementary School?
Bloomer Elementary School enrolls approximately 396 students in grades PK-05.
Is Bloomer Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Bloomer Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Bloomer Elementary School?
Approximately 13.2:1 students per teacher at Bloomer Elementary School.
How diverse is Bloomer Elementary School?
Bloomer Elementary School reports a student body of 69% White, 17% Hispanic, 7% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Bloomer Elementary School?
Bloomer Elementary School is overseen by Council Bluffs Comm School District in Pottawattamie County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.