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Enrollment
413
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LINN-MAR COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 191722001002
Bowman Woods Elementary School
151 Boyson Rd NE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52402 · (319) 447-3240 · Linn County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL413 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
14.5:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
28%
115 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 54 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 64 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 80 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 73 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 67 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is about the same size as its 4th grade class (67).
Student demographics
44%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
82.9%
IA avg 73.6% . +4.5pp since 2023
Math
80.0%
IA avg 70.9% . +2.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 82.9% | 80.0% |
| 2023-24 | 78.4% | 77.1% |
% 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
79.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
78.0%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 78% 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 Bowman Woods Elementary School
Bowman Woods Elementary School's state test result (79.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bowman Woods Elementary School this school | 413 | 27.8% | 79.5% |
| Orchard Hill Elementary School Cedar Falls | 458 | 28.6% | 77.5% |
| Webster Elementary School Urbandale | 519 | 23.9% | 85.0% |
| Hartford Upper Elementary Hartford | 303 | 27.1% | 77.0% |
| Southdale Elementary School Cedar Falls | 539 | 22.1% | 81.4% |
| East Ridge Elementary Coralville | 442 | 32.4% | 74.4% |
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 Bowman Woods Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Linn County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 79.5% | #140 of 564 | #10 of 39 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.0% | #225 of 564 ▲ 37 | #16 of 39 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.9% | #101 of 564 ▲ 37 | #8 of 39 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 413 | #201 of 705 | #15 of 45 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.5:1 | #404 of 561 | #33 of 42 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 43.5% | #259 of 561 | #29 of 42 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 27.8% | #529 of 666 | #33 of 44 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.0% | #224 of 359 | #20 of 30 |
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
413
-18 (-4%) vs 2020
-22% since 1990-91, when it was 531
Student : Teacher
14.5:1
was 16.0:1
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 | 413 | 28.5 | 14.5:1 | 28% (115) |
| 2023-24 | 432 | 31 | 13.9:1 | 27% (118) |
| 2022-23 | 439 | 31.7 | 13.8:1 | 23% (99) |
| 2020-21 | 431 | 27 | 16.0:1 | 22% (93) |
| 2017-18 | 459 | 28.9 | 15.9:1 | 22% (102) |
| 2015-16 | 474 | 30 | 15.8:1 | 20% (94) |
| 2010-11 | 417 | 28 | 14.9:1 | 12% (49) |
| 2000-01 | 462 | 33 | 14.0:1 | 3% (15) |
| 1990-91 | 531 | 25 | 21.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bowman Woods Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (459 to 413); teachers down 1% (28.9 to 28.5).
About Bowman Woods Elementary School
Bowman Woods Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Linn-Mar Comm School District, located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Federal data show 413 students enrolled in pre-K through 4 in 2024-25. On average, elementary schools in Iowa enroll around 325, and this school is 27% above that mark.
Bowman Woods Elementary School is a school in Linn-Mar Comm School District. The district has 12 schools and 7,361 students.
Federal enrollment data show Bowman Woods Elementary School is 74% White. Next come 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 6% Black, and 6% Asian. The county population is about 84% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 44, compared with 70 nationally.
Bowman Woods Elementary School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.5:1, with 28.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Iowa is 13.7:1, so this school has more students per teacher. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 28% at Bowman Woods Elementary School. Public schools in Linn County average 40%.
Bowman Woods Elementary School earns a B+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 68% of Iowa public elementary schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 78.0% for Bowman Woods Elementary School. The school posts 79.5%, 1.5 points above the prediction.
Looking at the county, Linn County, the median household earns about $77,649 a year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The county's public schools total 83, with about 36,480 students.
Novak Elementary School, about 1.3 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, Bowman Woods Elementary School ranks 5th in a group of 8 nearby schools.
For locale, NCES codes Bowman Woods Elementary School as City: Mid-size.
The school shrank from 431 students in 2020-21 to 413 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 16.0:1; by 2024-25 it was 14.5:1.
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Linn County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
230,004
Census ACS
Median income
$77,649
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
83
36,480 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Linn-Mar Comm School District
- Linn-Mar High SchoolHigh · 2,229 students
- Boulder Peak Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 613 students
- Excelsior Middle SchoolMiddle · 594 students
- Hazel Point Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 563 students
- Echo Hill ElementaryElementary · 536 students
- Oak Ridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 534 students
Other schools in Cedar Rapids
- Prairie High SchoolHigh · 1,766 students
- John F Kennedy High SchoolHigh · 1,648 students
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,501 students
- George Washington High SchoolHigh · 1,182 students
- Prairie PointMiddle · 868 students
- Prairie CreekMiddle · 846 students
Nearby schools
- Novak Elementary School1.3 mi · 347
- Parkview Elementary School1.5 mi · 267
- Linn-Mar High School1.7 mi · 2,229
- Westfield Elementary School1.7 mi · 445
- Harding Middle School1.7 mi · 710
- Excelsior Middle School1.8 mi · 594
Frequently asked questions
About Bowman Woods Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Bowman Woods Elementary School?
Bowman Woods Elementary School enrolls approximately 413 students in grades PK-04.
What grades does Bowman Woods Elementary School serve?
Bowman Woods Elementary School serves grades PK-04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Bowman Woods Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Bowman Woods Elementary School is approximately 14.5:1 (29 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Bowman Woods Elementary School?
Student demographics at Bowman Woods Elementary School are roughly 74% White, 7% Hispanic, 6% Black, 6% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Bowman Woods Elementary School?
Bowman Woods Elementary School is overseen by Linn-Mar Comm School District in Linn County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.