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Enrollment
393
Elementary
DISTRICT 335 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DAVENPORT COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 190858000465
Garfield Elementary School
902 E 29th St, Davenport, IA 52803 · (563) 723-6450 · Scott County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL393 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 5% of Iowa public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
13.9:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
59%
232 students
DISTRICT 53% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 57 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 61 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 63 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 74 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 64 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 74 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 23% smaller than its 5th grade class (74).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · 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
54.9%
IA avg 73.6% . +4.7pp since 2023
Math
50.7%
IA avg 70.9% . +6.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.9% | 50.7% |
| 2023-24 | 50.2% | 43.8% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: ISASP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of IA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
47.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.4%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 62% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Garfield Elementary School
Garfield Elementary School's state test result (47.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garfield Elementary School this school | 393 | 59.0% | 47.9% |
| Kenwood Leadership Academy School Cedar Rapids | 386 | 60.4% | 59.0% |
| Adams Elementary School Davenport | 498 | 57.2% | 48.8% |
| Longfellow Elementary School Iowa City | 325 | 53.5% | 64.0% |
| Jackson Elementary School Davenport | 322 | 56.8% | 48.2% |
| North Hill Elementary School Burlington | 268 | 60.8% | 64.1% |
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 Garfield Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Scott County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.9% | #514 of 564 | #28 of 31 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.7% | #513 of 564 ▲ 30 | #26 of 31 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.9% | #481 of 564 ▲ 13 | #26 of 31 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 393 | #232 of 705 | #16 of 34 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #340 of 561 | #15 of 29 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.2% | #49 of 561 | #9 of 29 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 59.0% | #137 of 666 | #5 of 33 |
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
393
-75 (-16%) vs 2020
-13% since 1990-91, when it was 450
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 15.1:1
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 | 393 | 28.2 | 13.9:1 | 59% (232) |
| 2023-24 | 484 | 31.9 | 15.2:1 | 62% (300) |
| 2022-23 | 431 | 32.4 | 13.3:1 | 57% (246) |
| 2020-21 | 468 | 31 | 15.1:1 | 62% (292) |
| 2017-18 | 393 | 27 | 14.6:1 | 68% (266) |
| 2015-16 | 394 | 26 | 15.2:1 | 71% (279) |
| 2010-11 | 492 | 28 | 17.6:1 | 60% (293) |
| 2000-01 | 390 | 24 | 16.3:1 | 41% (159) |
| 1990-91 | 450 | 24 | 18.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Garfield Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (393 to 393); teachers up 5% (27 to 28.2).
About Garfield Elementary School
Garfield Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in Davenport, Iowa. Students in kindergarten through 5 attend the school, which enrolls 393 students. For comparison, elementary schools in Iowa average about 325 students.
Garfield Elementary School is among 27 schools run by Davenport Comm School District, which serves 12,812 students.
Garfield Elementary School's enrollment has no majority group, and White students are the largest at 42%. The school is also 26% Black, 16% Hispanic, and 15% multiracial. The White share of the county population is higher, at 79%. Garfield Elementary School has a diversity index of 70%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Its 28.2 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 13.9:1. Elementary schools in Iowa have a similar average ratio of 13.7:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 59%. That rate is above the 38% average among public schools in Scott County.
The allk12 Grade for Garfield Elementary School is D. Compared with Iowa public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 5% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Compared with Iowa schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Garfield Elementary School scores 14.5 points lower than predicted. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 47.9%; the prediction is 62.4%.
Among Scott County residents, median household income is about $78,277, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 53 public schools in Scott County, with a combined enrollment of about 26,100.
The closest other public school is Sudlow Middle School, about 0.8 miles away. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 7 schools in the immediate area with test results, Garfield Elementary School ranks 6th on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Garfield Elementary School is coded City: Mid-size, for schools inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Garfield Elementary School had 468 students in 2020-21 and 393 in 2024-25, a 16% decrease. Its ratio of students to teachers was 15.1:1 in 2020-21, and 13.9:1 in 2024-25.
Parents and students can post about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs at Garfield Elementary School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Scott County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
174,608
Census ACS
Median income
$78,277
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
53
26,100 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Davenport Comm School District
- West High SchoolHigh · 1,304 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 1,288 students
- North High SchoolHigh · 1,190 students
- Sudlow Middle SchoolMiddle · 734 students
- Wood Middle SchoolMiddle · 629 students
- Williams Middle SchoolMiddle · 577 students
Other schools in Davenport
- West High SchoolHigh · 1,304 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 1,288 students
- North High SchoolHigh · 1,190 students
- Sudlow Middle SchoolMiddle · 734 students
- Wood Middle SchoolMiddle · 629 students
- Williams Middle SchoolMiddle · 577 students
Other Garfield Elementary schools
51 other US public schools in 21 states are named Garfield Elementary. Garfield Elementary School is the 21st largest of the 52.
- Garfield Elementary SchoolClarinda, IA · 573 students
- Garfield Elementary SchoolCedar Rapids, IA · 202 students
- Garfield Elementary SchoolRevere, MA · 639 students
- Garfield Elementary SchoolDEL RIO, TX · 635 students
- Garfield ElementaryClovis, CA · 610 students
Nearby schools
- Sudlow Middle School0.8 mi · 734
- Madison Elementary School1.0 mi · 318
- Eisenhower Elementary School1.1 mi · 412
- Central High School1.5 mi · 1,288
- Children's Village At Hoover1.5 mi · 139
- McKinley Elementary School1.6 mi · 421
Frequently asked questions
About Garfield Elementary SchoolHow large is Garfield Elementary School?
Garfield Elementary School enrolls approximately 393 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Garfield Elementary School serve?
Garfield Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Garfield Elementary School?
Approximately 13.9:1 students per teacher at Garfield Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Garfield Elementary School?
At Garfield Elementary School, the student body is approximately 42% White, 16% Hispanic, 26% Black, 15% Two or more.
What district is Garfield Elementary School in?
Garfield Elementary School is part of Davenport Comm School District.
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