Cody Elementary School

Cody Elementary School is one of the moderately sized elementary campuss in LeClaire, Iowa, overseen by Pleasant Valley Comm School District, with 443 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 36% above the state mean of about 325.

Pleasant Valley Comm School District runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 5,696 students. Cody Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Cody Elementary School logs that nearly all students (84%) are White; the rest comes out to 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 14% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Scott County (around 38%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cody Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 85.1%, the actual is 88.8%, a residual of +3.8 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Scott County shows median household earnings sit near $78,277, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Scott County runs 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,100 students), of which Cody Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Bridgeview Elementary School, roughly 1.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cody Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 74.7%.

Cody Elementary School operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 23%: 361 students in 2018 compared to 443 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 92% to 84%. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

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