Enrollment
308
Elementary
DISTRICT 332 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CEDAR RAPIDS COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 190654000237
Erskine Elementary School
600 36th ST SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403 · (319) 558-2364 · Linn County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL308 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 55% 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.
- 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
16.0:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
53%
164 students
DISTRICT 61% · STATE 41%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 52 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 53 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 49 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 54 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 49 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (52) is 6% larger than its 5th grade class (49).
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
65.7%
IA avg 73.6% . -3.6pp since 2023
Math
74.3%
IA avg 70.9% . -0.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.7% | 74.3% |
| 2023-24 | 69.3% | 74.5% |
% 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
70.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.3%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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 Erskine Elementary School
Erskine Elementary School's state test result (70.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erskine Elementary School this school | 308 | 53.2% | 70.1% |
| Sunnyside Elementary School Burlington | 298 | 56.0% | 74.7% |
| Black Hawk Elementary School Burlington | 305 | 53.8% | 60.5% |
| North Cedar Elementary School Cedar Falls | 292 | 49.7% | 72.9% |
| Francis Marion Intermediate School Marion | 320 | 50.0% | 76.4% |
| Altoona Elementary Altoona | 429 | 53.4% | 76.9% |
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 Erskine Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Linn County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.1% | #328 of 564 | #21 of 39 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.3% | #312 of 564 ▲ 1 | #20 of 39 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.7% | #397 of 564 ▼ 86 | #27 of 39 ▼ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 308 | #356 of 705 | #31 of 45 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.0:1 | #508 of 561 | #38 of 42 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.9% | #202 of 561 | #23 of 42 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 53.2% | #182 of 666 | #15 of 44 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.8% | #143 of 359 | #12 of 30 |
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
308
-2 (-1%) vs 2020
-27% since 1990-91, when it was 420
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
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 | 308 | 19.3 | 16.0:1 | 53% (164) |
| 2023-24 | 280 | 19.9 | 14.0:1 | 54% (151) |
| 2022-23 | 293 | 20.9 | 14.0:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 310 | 24 | 12.9:1 | 45% (139) |
| 2017-18 | 366 | 21 | 17.5:1 | 36% (133) |
| 2015-16 | 376 | 22 | 17.1:1 | 35% (130) |
| 2010-11 | 313 | 19 | 16.5:1 | 38% (118) |
| 2000-01 | 386 | 22 | 17.6:1 | 25% (98) |
| 1990-91 | 420 | 24 | 17.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Erskine Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (366 to 308); teachers down 8% (21 to 19.3).
About Erskine Elementary School
Erskine Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school, is located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The school runs kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 308 students.
Cedar Rapids Comm School District serves 15,494 students across 35 schools.
About 67% of the student body at Erskine Elementary School is White. Other students are 13% Black, 13% multiracial, and 6% Hispanic. By comparison, Linn County residents are about 84% White. A diversity index of 52% means there is a 52% chance two randomly chosen students at Erskine Elementary School are from different groups.
Classroom staffing at Erskine Elementary School totals 19.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 16.0:1. The average for elementary schools in Iowa, 13.7:1, is lower. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Erskine Elementary School is about 53%. Across public schools in Linn County, the average is 40%.
Erskine Elementary School holds a B allk12 Grade, placing it above 55% of Iowa public elementary schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Erskine Elementary School is 4.8 points above the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 70.1% actual, 65.3% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Iowa.
American Community Survey estimates for Linn County show that the median household earns about $77,649 a year, about 35% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Across Linn County, 83 public schools serve about 36,480 students.
About 0.8 miles separate Erskine Elementary School from the closest public school, Grant Wood Elementary School. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Erskine Elementary School is 1st of 7 nearby schools with test data.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Mid-size.
There was little change in enrollment from 2020-21 (310) to 2024-25 (308). By 2024-25, the school had 16.0 students per teacher, compared with 12.9 in 2020-21.
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Linn County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
230,004
Census ACS
Median income
$77,649
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
83
36,480 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cedar Rapids Comm School District
- John F Kennedy High SchoolHigh · 1,648 students
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,501 students
- George Washington High SchoolHigh · 1,182 students
- Harding Middle SchoolMiddle · 710 students
- Taft Middle SchoolMiddle · 593 students
- Viola Gibson Elementary SchoolElementary · 565 students
Other schools in Cedar Rapids
- Prairie High SchoolHigh · 1,766 students
- John F Kennedy High SchoolHigh · 1,648 students
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,501 students
- George Washington High SchoolHigh · 1,182 students
- Prairie PointMiddle · 868 students
- Prairie CreekMiddle · 846 students
Other Erskine Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Erskine Elementary. Erskine Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Erskine Elementary SchoolAnderson, IN · 461 students
Nearby schools
- Grant Wood Elementary School0.8 mi · 356
- George Washington High School1.4 mi · 1,182
- Johnson STEAM Academy School1.6 mi · 324
- Empowering Excellence Charter School1.8 mi · 120
- Franklin Middle School1.8 mi · 469
- McKinley STEAM Academy2.0 mi · 426
Frequently asked questions
About Erskine Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Erskine Elementary School?
Erskine Elementary School enrolls approximately 308 students in grades KG-05.
Is Erskine Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Erskine Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Erskine Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Erskine Elementary School is approximately 16.0:1 (19 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Erskine Elementary School?
At Erskine Elementary School, the student body is approximately 67% White, 6% Hispanic, 13% Black, 1% Asian, 13% Two or more.
What district is Erskine Elementary School in?
Erskine Elementary School is part of Cedar Rapids Comm School District.
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