Blue Grass Elementary School

Blue Grass Elementary School is one of the mid-tier K-5 schools in Blue Grass, Iowa, one of the schools within Davenport Comm School District, with 277 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Blue Grass Elementary School is one of 27 schools operated by Davenport Comm School District, a district that teaches 12,812 students overall.

On demographics, Blue Grass Elementary School logs that nearly all students (89%) are White. The remainder comes out to 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Scott County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Blue Grass Elementary School reports 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Blue Grass Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 23% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Scott County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Blue Grass Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 80.4%, the actual is 76.7%, a residual of -3.7 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Scott County indicate median household earnings sit near $78,277, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Blue Grass Elementary School is one of 53 public schools in Scott County (combined enrollment of about 26,100 students).

Buffalo Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Blue Grass Elementary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 55.3%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 7%: 298 students in 2018 compared to 277 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged up from 80% to 89% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.