Cascade Elementary School

Cascade Elementary School is a K-5 school of moderately sized scale in Cascade, Iowa, one of the schools within Western Dubuque Comm School District, educateing 305 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Cascade Elementary School is one of 8 schools operated by Western Dubuque Comm School District, a district that teaches 3,643 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Cascade Elementary School logs that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 11% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Dubuque County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 37% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Cascade Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.4%, the actual is 78.2%, a residual of +4.8 points.

Across the wider county, Dubuque County reports that the typical household earns roughly $77,630 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Dubuque County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,164 students), Cascade Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Cascade Junior-Senior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Cascade Elementary School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 78.4%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Five-year trend. Cascade Elementary School's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 311 (now 305). The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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