Enrollment
312
Elementary
DISTRICT 332 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CEDAR RAPIDS COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 190654001490
Grant Elementary School
254 Outlook DR SW, Cedar Rapids, IA 52404 · (319) 558-2020 · Linn County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL312 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 4% 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.
- 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
11.6:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
213 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 | 51 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 50 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 55 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 55 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 48 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 53 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (51) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (53).
Student demographics
68%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
39.9%
IA avg 73.6% . -5.1pp since 2023
Math
45.2%
IA avg 70.9% . -9.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 9 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.9% | 45.2% |
| 2023-24 | 45.0% | 54.5% |
% 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
44.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.8%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 58% 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 Grant Elementary School
Grant Elementary School's state test result (44.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grant Elementary School this school | 312 | 68.3% | 44.7% |
| Harrison Elementary School Cedar Rapids | 277 | 65.7% | 45.5% |
| North Hill Elementary School Burlington | 268 | 60.8% | 64.1% |
| Lincoln Elementary School Dubuque | 257 | 72.0% | 47.8% |
| Kenwood Leadership Academy School Cedar Rapids | 386 | 60.4% | 59.0% |
| Wright Elementary School Cedar Rapids | 282 | 68.8% | 58.9% |
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 Grant Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Linn County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.7% | #531 of 564 | #35 of 39 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.2% | #544 of 564 ▼ 41 | #39 of 39 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.9% | #553 of 564 ▼ 24 | #37 of 39 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 312 | #349 of 705 | #30 of 45 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.6:1 | #71 of 561 | #2 of 42 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.3% | #68 of 561 | #8 of 42 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 68.3% | #83 of 666 | #9 of 44 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.6% | #204 of 359 | #19 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
312
+13 (+4%) vs 2020
+31% since 2010-11, when it was 238
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
was 12.5:1
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 | 312 | 27 | 11.6:1 | 68% (213) |
| 2023-24 | 294 | 25.9 | 11.4:1 | 83% (243) |
| 2022-23 | 320 | 24.9 | 12.9:1 | 72% (229) |
| 2020-21 | 299 | 24 | 12.5:1 | 71% (212) |
| 2017-18 | 353 | 26.2 | 13.5:1 | 69% (245) |
| 2015-16 | 360 | 24 | 15.0:1 | 72% (259) |
| 2010-11 | 238 | 20 | 11.9:1 | 68% (162) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Grant Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (353 to 312); teachers up 3% (26.2 to 27).
About Grant Elementary School
The public elementary school Grant Elementary School is located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The school serves 312 students in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25.
Grant Elementary School is a school in Cedar Rapids Comm School District. The district has 35 schools and 15,494 students.
The most common group at Grant Elementary School is White students, at 46%. It is also 28% Black, 15% multiracial, 9% Hispanic, and 3% Pacific Islander. Linn County's residents are about 84% White, 38 points above the school's share. Grant Elementary School's diversity index is 68%, against a US figure of 70%.
A ratio of 11.6:1 comes from the school's 27 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 13.7:1 average for elementary schools in Iowa. The lunch program counts 68% of students at Grant Elementary School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Compared with the 40% average for public schools in Linn County, the school's rate is higher.
Measured against Iowa public elementary schools, Grant Elementary School receives an F. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
The BeatsExpectations model predicts 57.8% for Grant Elementary School, given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The actual figure is 44.7%. The 13.1-point gap ranks in the bottom 10% of Iowa schools.
According to the American Community Survey, in Linn County, the median household income is $77,649, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 35% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 6%. There are 83 public schools in Linn County, enrolling about 36,480 students in all.
Wilson Middle School is the closest public school, about 0.3 miles away in a straight line. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The school's 44.7% average proficiency ranks 5th among 7 nearby schools.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Mid-size.
Enrollment grew 4% from its 2020-21 level of 299.
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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 Grant Elementary schools
34 other US public schools in 13 states are named Grant Elementary. Grant Elementary School is the 23rd largest of the 35.
- Grant Elementary SchoolMuscatine, IA · 300 students
- Grant ElementaryLong Beach, CA · 951 students
- Grant ElementaryRedding, CA · 600 students
- Grant Elementary SchoolSOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ · 568 students
- Grant ElementarySanta Monica, CA · 562 students
Nearby schools
- Wilson Middle School0.3 mi · 422
- Cedar River Academy at Taylor1.4 mi · 355
- City View High1.6 mi · 100
- Metro High School1.6 mi · 288
- Thomas Jefferson High School1.9 mi · 1,501
- McKinley STEAM Academy2.0 mi · 426
Frequently asked questions
About Grant Elementary SchoolHow large is Grant Elementary School?
Grant Elementary School enrolls approximately 312 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Grant Elementary School serve?
Grant Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does Grant Elementary School have?
Grant Elementary School employs 27 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.6:1.
What is the student diversity at Grant Elementary School?
Student demographics at Grant Elementary School are roughly 46% White, 9% Hispanic, 28% Black, 0% Asian, 15% Two or more.
What district is Grant Elementary School in?
Grant Elementary School is part of Cedar Rapids Comm School District.
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