Crestwood Elementary School

Crestwood Elementary School operates as a mid-sized elementary school in Cresco, Iowa, one of the schools within Howard-Winneshiek Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 349 students spanning grades K through 4.

Howard-Winneshiek Comm School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,021 students; Crestwood Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Crestwood Elementary School reports that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 11% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 93%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Crestwood Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Howard County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Crestwood Elementary School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 62.4%; this one delivers 75.2%, a residual of +12.8 points.

In the broader community, census data for Howard County shows median household earnings sit near $67,446, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Crestwood Elementary School is one of 6 public schools in Howard County (combined enrollment of about 1,452 students).

Nearest neighbor: Crestwood Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Crestwood Elementary School at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 71.9%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Crestwood Elementary School has shrank 26%, going from 471 students in 2018 to 349 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 92% to 83% over that span.

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