Enrollment
355
Elementary
DISTRICT 332 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CEDAR RAPIDS COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 190654000262
Cedar River Academy at Taylor
720 7th AVE SW, Cedar Rapids, IA 52404 · (319) 558-2477 · Linn County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL355 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 0% of Iowa public elementary schools
- FTest 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
12.8:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
76%
270 students
DISTRICT 61% · 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 | 56 | 16% |
| Kindergarten | 45 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 39 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 40 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 58 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 55 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (45) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (55).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
31.9%
IA avg 73.6% . -4.6pp since 2023
Math
45.3%
IA avg 70.9% . +5.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 31.9% | 45.3% |
| 2023-24 | 36.5% | 39.4% |
% 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
37.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.9%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 54% 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 Cedar River Academy at Taylor
Cedar River Academy at Taylor's state test result (37.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar River Academy at Taylor this school | 355 | 76.1% | 37.0% |
| Johnson STEAM Academy School Cedar Rapids | 324 | 70.4% | 40.0% |
| Madison Elementary School Davenport | 318 | 80.5% | 27.8% |
| Lincoln Elementary School Dubuque | 257 | 72.0% | 47.8% |
| Cleveland Elementary School Cedar Rapids | 254 | 76.4% | 37.5% |
| Prescott Elementary School Dubuque | 352 | 81.5% | 31.8% |
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 Cedar River Academy at Taylor ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Linn County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #557 of 564 | #39 of 39 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.3% | #543 of 564 ▲ 10 | #38 of 39 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.9% | #562 of 564 ▼ 10 | #39 of 39 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 355 | #284 of 705 | #22 of 45 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #200 of 561 | #13 of 42 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.2% | #33 of 561 | #2 of 42 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 76.1% | #54 of 666 | #5 of 44 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +30.0% | #20 of 168 | #2 of 9 |
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
355
+13 (+4%) vs 2020
+20% since 1990-91, when it was 297
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
was 11.8:1
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 | 355 | 27.6 | 12.8:1 | 76% (270) |
| 2023-24 | 344 | 29.1 | 11.8:1 | 84% (288) |
| 2022-23 | 296 | 25.9 | 11.4:1 | 78% (231) |
| 2020-21 | 342 | 29 | 11.8:1 | 85% (290) |
| 2017-18 | 273 | 25.3 | 10.8:1 | 88% (241) |
| 2015-16 | 312 | 22 | 14.2:1 | 90% (282) |
| 2010-11 | 261 | 23 | 11.3:1 | 87% (226) |
| 2000-01 | 340 | 24 | 14.2:1 | 76% (260) |
| 1990-91 | 297 | 29 | 10.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cedar River Academy at Taylor.
Since 2017-18: students up 30% (273 to 355); teachers up 9% (25.3 to 27.6).
About Cedar River Academy at Taylor
Cedar River Academy at Taylor is a mid-sized elementary school. Its address is in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In all, 355 students attend the school in pre-K through 5.
Enrollment across the 35 schools in Cedar Rapids Comm School District totals 15,494 students.
The biggest share of students at Cedar River Academy at Taylor, 38%, is Black. The remaining shares are 33% White, 16% multiracial, and 12% Hispanic. Census estimates put the Black share of Linn County's population at about 6%. The diversity index for Cedar River Academy at Taylor is 71%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Based on 27.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, Cedar River Academy at Taylor has a ratio of 12.8:1. The gap from the 13.7:1 average for elementary schools in Iowa is 0.9 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 76%. The 40% average for public schools in Linn County is 36 points lower.
Cedar River Academy at Taylor earns an F on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 0% of Iowa public elementary schools.
Cedar River Academy at Taylor is a bottom-10% school in Iowa on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 37.0% against a predicted 53.9%.
For Linn County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $77,649, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 35%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. The county has 83 public schools and about 36,480 students.
Cedar River Academy at Taylor is about 0.7 miles from City View High, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, Cedar River Academy at Taylor is behind the 48.3% nearby average, ranking 8th of 8.
NCES assigns Cedar River Academy at Taylor the locale City: Mid-size, meaning inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The school's student count rose 4% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio increased from 11.8:1 to 12.8:1.
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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 Cedar Rapids Comm School District
- John F Kennedy High SchoolHigh · 1,648 students
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,501 students
- George Washington High SchoolHigh · 1,182 students
- Harding Middle SchoolMiddle · 710 students
- Taft Middle SchoolMiddle · 593 students
- Viola Gibson Elementary SchoolElementary · 565 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
- City View High0.7 mi · 100
- Roosevelt Creative Corridor Business Academy0.7 mi · 484
- Thomas Jefferson High School1.0 mi · 1,501
- Wilson Middle School1.2 mi · 422
- Harrison Elementary School1.2 mi · 277
- Cleveland Elementary School1.2 mi · 254
Frequently asked questions
About Cedar River Academy at TaylorWhat is the total enrollment at Cedar River Academy at Taylor?
Cedar River Academy at Taylor enrolls approximately 355 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Cedar River Academy at Taylor serve?
Cedar River Academy at Taylor serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Cedar River Academy at Taylor?
Approximately 12.8:1 students per teacher at Cedar River Academy at Taylor.
What is the student diversity at Cedar River Academy at Taylor?
Student demographics at Cedar River Academy at Taylor are roughly 33% White, 12% Hispanic, 38% Black, 1% Asian, 16% Two or more.
Is Cedar River Academy at Taylor public or private?
Cedar River Academy at Taylor is a public K-12 school, overseen by Cedar Rapids Comm School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.