Erskine Elementary School

Erskine Elementary School is one of the medium-sized elementary-level communitys in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, operated by Cedar Rapids Comm School District, with 308 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Across the 35 schools in Cedar Rapids Comm School District (15,494 students total), Erskine Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Erskine Elementary School lists that 67% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 13% Black, 13% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 84% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Erskine Elementary School has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.0:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 53% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Linn County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Erskine Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.3%, the actual is 70.1%, a residual of +4.8 points.

In the surrounding community, Linn County reports that the typical household earns roughly $77,649 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Linn County's 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,480 students), Erskine Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Grant Wood Elementary School, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Erskine Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 57.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Erskine Elementary School has declined 16%, going from 366 students in 2018 to 308 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 76% to 67%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 in 2025.

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