City View High
Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 79 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 19 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% 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%.
About City View High
City View High is a secondary school of rural-scale scale in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, overseen by Cedar Rapids Comm School District, caters to 100 students in grades 9 through 11. Compared to the state average of about 468 students per school, that is 79% below typical.
Cedar Rapids Comm School District comprises 35 schools with combined enrollment of 15,494 students; City View High is among them.
On the student-mix side, City View High logs that 62% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 12% Black, 12% multiracial, 11% Hispanic. By comparison, Linn County as a whole is about 84% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.0:1. The state averages about 17.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 50% of students at City View High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Linn County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, City View High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 66.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 61.2%.
Across the wider county, Linn County reports that median household earnings sit near $77,649, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Linn County's 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,480 students), City View High is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Cedar River Academy at Taylor, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts City View High at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 46.3%.
City View High operates from an urban location.
On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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