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Enrollment
384
Elementary
DISTRICT 368 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COUNCIL BLUFFS COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 190822000416
Edison Elementary School
2218 3rd Avenue, Council Bluffs, IA 51501 · (712) 328-6516 · Pottawattamie County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL384 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 12% of Iowa public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Iowa public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
46%
178 students
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 42 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 57 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 49 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 68 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 46 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 24% larger than its 5th grade class (46).
Student demographics
45%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 48% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
61.5%
IA avg 73.6% . +8.1pp since 2023
Math
71.8%
IA avg 70.9% . +5.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 61.5% | 71.8% |
| 2023-24 | 53.4% | 66.5% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: ISASP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
59.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.8%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Edison Elementary School
Edison Elementary School's state test result (59.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edison Elementary School this school | 384 | 46.4% | 59.8% |
| Longfellow Elementary School Council Bluffs | 431 | 45.7% | 53.6% |
| Rue Elementary School Council Bluffs | 385 | 43.1% | 54.8% |
| Franklin Elementary School Council Bluffs | 421 | 45.4% | 61.0% |
| Roosevelt Elementary School Council Bluffs | 455 | 44.6% | 54.4% |
| Bloomer Elementary School Council Bluffs | 396 | 48.0% | 57.5% |
Matched among Iowa elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Edison Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Pottawattamie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 59.8% | #460 of 564 | #11 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.8% | #357 of 564 ▲ 66 | #8 of 16 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 61.5% | #443 of 564 ▲ 32 | #12 of 16 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 384 | #243 of 705 | #11 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.2:1 | #367 of 561 | #9 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.3% | #247 of 561 | #7 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 46.4% | #264 of 666 | #3 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.3% | #132 of 359 | #5 of 11 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
384
-29 (-7%) vs 2020
-28% since 1990-91, when it was 537
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
was 12.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 384 | 27.1 | 14.2:1 | 46% (178) |
| 2023-24 | 384 | 29.1 | 13.2:1 | 61% (234) |
| 2022-23 | 432 | 30.9 | 14.0:1 | 63% (272) |
| 2020-21 | 413 | 32 | 12.9:1 | 72% (297) |
| 2017-18 | 459 | 32 | 14.3:1 | 76% (348) |
| 2015-16 | 487 | 34 | 14.3:1 | 78% (378) |
| 2010-11 | 420 | 32 | 13.1:1 | 72% (302) |
| 2000-01 | 442 | 34 | 13.0:1 | 52% (230) |
| 1990-91 | 537 | 28 | 19.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Edison Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (459 to 384); teachers down 15% (32 to 27.1).
About Edison Elementary School
In Council Bluffs, Iowa, part of Pottawattamie County, Edison Elementary School is an elementary school. Its enrollment is 384 students, spread over pre-K through 5.
Edison Elementary School is one school in a 15-school district, Council Bluffs Comm School District, which enrolls 8,299 students.
More than half of the students at Edison Elementary School are White (71%). Beyond that, enrollment is 22% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 3% Black. In Pottawattamie County overall, about 88% of residents are White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Edison Elementary School scores 45%.
Based on 27.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, Edison Elementary School has a ratio of 14.2:1. That is in line with the 13.7:1 average for elementary schools in Iowa. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 46%.
Among Iowa public elementary schools, Edison Elementary School outscored 12%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
On BeatsExpectations, Edison Elementary School is 8.9 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Iowa schools.
In Pottawattamie County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $73,602 a year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of people live in poverty. Counting Edison Elementary School, Pottawattamie County has 35 public schools.
Thomas Jefferson High School is about 0.3 miles away, making it the nearest public school. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Edison Elementary School's average proficiency of 59.8% compares with 55.4% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The NCES locale for Edison Elementary School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment decreased by 7% across 4 years, from 413 in 2020-21 to 384 in 2024-25. The ratio of students to teachers went from 12.9:1 to 14.2:1 over the same years.
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Pottawattamie County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
93,424
Census ACS
Median income
$73,602
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
35
15,270 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Council Bluffs Comm School District
- Abraham Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,333 students
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,146 students
- Gerald W Kirn Middle SchoolMiddle · 913 students
- Woodrow Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 855 students
- College View ElementaryElementary · 488 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 455 students
Other schools in Council Bluffs
- Abraham Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,333 students
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,146 students
- Lewis Central Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,020 students
- Gerald W Kirn Middle SchoolMiddle · 913 students
- Titan Hill Intermediate SchoolElementary · 901 students
- Woodrow Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 855 students
Other Edison Elementary schools
37 other US public schools in 19 states are named Edison Elementary. Edison Elementary School is the 21st largest of the 38.
- Edison ElementaryOntario, CA · 736 students
- Edison Elementary SchoolGAINESVILLE, TX · 630 students
- Edison Elementary SchoolDENVER, CO · 583 students
- Edison Elementary SchoolWilloughby, OH · 543 students
- Edison Elementary SchoolMESA, AZ · 528 students
Nearby schools
- Thomas Jefferson High School0.3 mi · 1,146
- Roosevelt Elementary School0.7 mi · 455
- Woodrow Wilson Middle School0.7 mi · 855
- Franklin Elementary School1.0 mi · 421
- Rue Elementary School1.1 mi · 385
- Bloomer Elementary School1.2 mi · 396
Frequently asked questions
About Edison Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Edison Elementary School?
Edison Elementary School enrolls approximately 384 students in grades PK-05.
Is Edison Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Edison Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Edison Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Edison Elementary School is approximately 14.2:1 (27 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Edison Elementary School?
Student demographics at Edison Elementary School are roughly 71% White, 22% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Edison Elementary School in?
Edison Elementary School is part of Council Bluffs Comm School District.
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