College View Elementary

College View Elementary is one of the high-enrollment elementary schools in Council Bluffs, Iowa, one of the schools within Council Bluffs Comm School District, with 488 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 50% above the state mean of about 325.

Council Bluffs Comm School District comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 8,299 students; College View Elementary is among them.

On demographics, College View Elementary records that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest is composed of 12% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% Black.

Looking at school resources, On paper, College View Elementary has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting College View Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 31% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Pottawattamie County (around 40%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, College View Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 76.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 76.3%.

Zooming out to the county, Pottawattamie County reports that median household income runs about $73,602, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. College View Elementary is one of 35 public schools in Pottawattamie County (combined enrollment of about 15,270 students).

Nearest neighbor: Abraham Lincoln High School, around 1.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around College View Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), College View Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 63.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 14%: 570 students in 2018 compared to 488 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 90% to 82% over that span.

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