Enrollment
301
Elementary
DISTRICT 368 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COUNCIL BLUFFS COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 190822000413
Carter Lake Elementary School
1000 Willow Drive, Carter Lake, IA 51510 · (712) 347-5876 · Pottawattamie County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL301 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 5% of Iowa public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
13.1:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
46%
137 students
DISTRICT 42% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 23 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 52 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 45 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 38 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 51 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 54 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 38 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (52) is 37% larger than its 5th grade class (38).
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
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ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
58.9%
IA avg 73.6% . +15.2pp since 2023
Math
66.1%
IA avg 70.9% . +9.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 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 15 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 58.9% | 66.1% |
| 2023-24 | 43.7% | 56.3% |
% 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
51.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.2%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 69% 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 Carter Lake Elementary School
Carter Lake Elementary School's state test result (51.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carter Lake Elementary School this school | 301 | 45.5% | 51.6% |
| Bloomer Elementary School Council Bluffs | 396 | 48.0% | 57.5% |
| Early Childhood Center Fort Dodge | 376 | 42.0% | N/A |
| Rue Elementary School Council Bluffs | 385 | 43.1% | 54.8% |
| Edison Elementary School Council Bluffs | 384 | 46.4% | 59.8% |
| Harding Elementary School Mason City | 387 | 45.2% | 66.8% |
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 Carter Lake Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Pottawattamie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.6% | #497 of 564 | #16 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.1% | #437 of 564 ▲ 55 | #15 of 16 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.9% | #460 of 564 ▲ 68 | #13 of 16 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 301 | #373 of 705 | #14 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #230 of 561 | #3 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.1% | #229 of 561 | #5 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 45.5% | #273 of 666 | #5 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.8% | #59 of 359 | #3 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
301
-60 (-17%) vs 2020
-30% since 1990-91, when it was 429
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 13.4:1
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 | 301 | 23.1 | 13.1:1 | 46% (137) |
| 2023-24 | 337 | 25.1 | 13.4:1 | 59% (200) |
| 2022-23 | 361 | 28.4 | 12.7:1 | 72% (259) |
| 2020-21 | 361 | 27 | 13.4:1 | 84% (303) |
| 2017-18 | 400 | 30 | 13.3:1 | 79% (315) |
| 2015-16 | 417 | 29 | 14.4:1 | 77% (322) |
| 2010-11 | 438 | 29 | 15.1:1 | 68% (300) |
| 2000-01 | 433 | 24 | 18.0:1 | 51% (219) |
| 1990-91 | 429 | 20 | 21.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Carter Lake Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 25% (400 to 301); teachers down 23% (30 to 23.1).
About Carter Lake Elementary School
Carter Lake, Iowa, is home to Carter Lake Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school. Enrollment stands at 301 students, covering pre-K through 5.
Within Council Bluffs Comm School District, Carter Lake Elementary School is one of 15 schools. The district enrolls 8,299 students.
The student body at Carter Lake Elementary School is 69% White. Smaller groups are 18% Hispanic, 7% Black, and 6% multiracial. County-wide, 88% of Pottawattamie County residents are White. The diversity index for Carter Lake Elementary School is 48%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
There are about 13.1 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Carter Lake Elementary School, which has 23.1. That is in line with the 13.7:1 average for elementary schools in Iowa. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Carter Lake Elementary School is about 46%.
On the allk12 Grade, Carter Lake Elementary School lands at D, ahead of 5% of Iowa public elementary schools.
Test results at Carter Lake Elementary School are 17.5 points below what its student poverty level predicts. The average proficiency rate across its state test results is 51.6%, compared with a predicted 69.2%, which ranks in the bottom 10% in Iowa.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Pottawattamie County show that median household income comes to about $73,602, roughly 24% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Pottawattamie County counts 35 public schools with about 15,270 students.
NCYF COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.9 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.
In the federal locale system, Carter Lake Elementary School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Carter Lake Elementary School had a net loss of 60 students, or 17%.
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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 Carter Lake Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Carter Lake Elementary. Carter Lake Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Carter Lake Elementary SchoolJBLM McChord Field, WA · 420 students
Nearby schools
- NCYF COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL0.9 mi · 17
- KING SCIENCE/TECH MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL1.4 mi · 610
- LOTHROP MAGNET CENTER1.6 mi · 431
- SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 257
- CONESTOGA MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 325
- EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER AT EDUCARE - KELLOM2.0 mi · 154
Frequently asked questions
About Carter Lake Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Carter Lake Elementary School?
Carter Lake Elementary School enrolls approximately 301 students in grades PK-05.
Is Carter Lake Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Carter Lake Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Carter Lake Elementary School?
Approximately 13.1:1 students per teacher at Carter Lake Elementary School.
How diverse is Carter Lake Elementary School?
Carter Lake Elementary School reports a student body of 69% White, 18% Hispanic, 7% Black, 0% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Carter Lake Elementary School in?
Carter Lake Elementary School is part of Council Bluffs Comm School District.
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