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Enrollment
568
Elementary
DISTRICT 349 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DUBUQUE COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 190948000605
Eisenhower Elementary School
3170 Spring Valley Rd, Dubuque, IA 52001 · (563) 552-3500 · Dubuque County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL568 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 55% of Iowa public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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
15.0:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
40%
225 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 41%
Community
5
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 | 27 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 80 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 84 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 89 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 92 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 99 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 97 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (80) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (97).
Student demographics
31%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · 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
74.8%
IA avg 73.6% . +3.1pp since 2023
Math
77.7%
IA avg 70.9% . -3.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.8% | 77.7% |
| 2023-24 | 71.7% | 81.2% |
% 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
73.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
72.1%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 72% 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 Eisenhower Elementary School
Eisenhower Elementary School's state test result (73.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eisenhower Elementary School this school | 568 | 39.6% | 73.8% |
| Washington Elementary School Atlantic | 554 | 39.9% | 78.0% |
| Table Mound Elementary School Dubuque | 425 | 39.5% | 63.9% |
| Wilder Elementary School Indianola | 456 | 36.2% | 67.6% |
| Louisa-Muscatine Elementary Letts | 468 | 38.7% | 76.4% |
| East Sac County Elementary Sac City | 433 | 36.5% | 76.0% |
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 Eisenhower Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Dubuque County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.8% | #263 of 564 | #8 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 77.7% | #263 of 564 ▼ 80 | #8 of 16 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.8% | #248 of 564 ▲ 11 | #5 of 16 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 568 | #53 of 705 | #1 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.0:1 | #450 of 561 | #16 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 31.1% | #328 of 561 | #8 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 39.6% | #370 of 666 | #7 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +7.0% | #103 of 168 | #5 of 9 |
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
568
+31 (+6%) vs 2020
+31% since 1990-91, when it was 434
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
was 14.9:1
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 | 568 | 37.9 | 15.0:1 | 40% (225) |
| 2023-24 | 595 | 37 | 16.1:1 | 36% (214) |
| 2022-23 | 566 | 36.9 | 15.4:1 | 34% (193) |
| 2020-21 | 537 | 36 | 14.9:1 | 31% (165) |
| 2017-18 | 531 | 34.6 | 15.3:1 | 28% (147) |
| 2015-16 | 524 | 36 | 14.6:1 | 25% (129) |
| 2010-11 | 544 | 40 | 13.6:1 | 29% (157) |
| 2000-01 | 603 | 39 | 15.5:1 | 18% (108) |
| 1990-91 | 434 | 38 | 11.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Eisenhower Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 7% (531 to 568); teachers up 9% (34.6 to 37.9).
About Eisenhower Elementary School
The public elementary school Eisenhower Elementary School is located in Dubuque, Iowa. The school covers pre-K through 5 and reported 568 students in 2024-25. On average, elementary schools in Iowa enroll around 325, and this school is 75% bigger than that mark.
Eisenhower Elementary School is a school in Dubuque Comm School District. The district has 19 schools and 9,843 students.
Eisenhower Elementary School is 83% White by enrollment. The next largest groups are 5% Black, 5% multiracial, and 4% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Eisenhower Elementary School scores 31%.
There are about 15.0 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Eisenhower Elementary School, which has 37.9. Elementary schools in Iowa average 13.7:1, 1.3 fewer students per teacher than here. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Eisenhower Elementary School is about 40%. The figure for public schools in Dubuque County is close, at 39%.
Eisenhower Elementary School earns a B on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 55% of Iowa public elementary schools.
Eisenhower Elementary School's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (73.8%) and its predicted rate (72.1%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Iowa schools.
In Dubuque County, median household income comes to about $77,630, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 33% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Dubuque County counts 26 public schools with about 13,164 students.
Among nearby public schools, John Kennedy Elementary School is closest at about 0.9 miles. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. By average proficiency, Eisenhower Elementary School is 4th among 8 schools close by.
In the federal locale system, Eisenhower Elementary School is coded City: Small, for schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment rose by 6% across 4 years, from 537 in 2020-21 to 568 in 2024-25.
Eisenhower Elementary School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Dubuque County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
99,030
Census ACS
Median income
$77,630
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
26
13,164 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Dubuque Comm School District
- Hempstead High SchoolHigh · 1,499 students
- Dubuque Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,490 students
- Eleanor Roosevelt Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,081 students
- George Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 584 students
- Carver Elementary SchoolElementary · 499 students
- John Kennedy Elementary SchoolElementary · 493 students
Other schools in Dubuque
- Hempstead High SchoolHigh · 1,499 students
- Dubuque Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,490 students
- Eleanor Roosevelt Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,081 students
- George Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 584 students
- Carver Elementary SchoolElementary · 499 students
- John Kennedy Elementary SchoolElementary · 493 students
Other Eisenhower Elementary schools
28 other US public schools in 14 states are named Eisenhower Elementary. Eisenhower Elementary School is the 5th largest of the 29.
- Eisenhower Elementary SchoolDavenport, IA · 412 students
- Eisenhower Elementary SchoolOttumwa, IA · 248 students
- EISENHOWER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCLEARWATER, FL · 678 students
- Eisenhower Elementary SchoolEDINBURG, TX · 640 students
- Eisenhower ElementaryLouisville, KY · 592 students
Nearby schools
- John Kennedy Elementary School0.9 mi · 493
- Dubuque Online School1.0 mi · 249
- Hoover Elementary School1.2 mi · 292
- Hempstead High School1.5 mi · 1,499
- Dubuque Senior High School1.6 mi · 1,490
- Irving Elementary School1.7 mi · 409
Frequently asked questions
About Eisenhower Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Eisenhower Elementary School?
Eisenhower Elementary School enrolls approximately 568 students in grades PK-05.
Is Eisenhower Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Eisenhower Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Eisenhower Elementary School have?
Eisenhower Elementary School employs 38 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.0:1.
How diverse is Eisenhower Elementary School?
Eisenhower Elementary School reports a student body of 83% White, 4% Hispanic, 5% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Eisenhower Elementary School in?
Eisenhower Elementary School is part of Dubuque Comm School District.
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