Cleveland Elementary School

Cleveland Elementary School operates as a small primary school in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, overseen by Cedar Rapids Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 254 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so Cleveland Elementary School sits 22% leaner than that benchmark.

Cedar Rapids Comm School District comprises 35 schools with combined enrollment of 15,494 students; Cleveland Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Cleveland Elementary School records that 44% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 33% Black, 12% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 84% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Around 76% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Linn County (around 40%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Cleveland Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Iowa public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 53.7%; Cleveland Elementary School posts 37.5%, -16.2 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Linn County) shows that median household income runs about $77,649, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Cleveland Elementary School is one of 83 public schools in Linn County (combined enrollment of about 36,480 students).

The closest other public school is Thomas Jefferson High School, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cleveland Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 54.5%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 36%: 397 students in 2018 compared to 254 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 56% to 44%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.