Grant Wood Elementary School

Grant Wood Elementary School is an elementary campus of average-sized scale in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, part of Cedar Rapids Comm School District, instructing 356 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Cedar Rapids Comm School District runs 35 schools in total, collectively educating 15,494 students. Grant Wood Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Grant Wood Elementary School reports that White students make up the majority at 57%. The remainder comes out to 19% Black, 15% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 84% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Grant Wood Elementary School has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Around 62% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Linn County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Grant Wood Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 60.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 63.3%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Linn County indicate median household earnings sit near $77,649, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Grant Wood Elementary School is one of 83 public schools in Linn County (combined enrollment of about 36,480 students).

Nearest neighbor: Erskine Elementary School, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Grant Wood Elementary School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Grant Wood Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 58.7%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Grant Wood Elementary School's enrollment has declined 5% since 2018, when it stood at 373 (now 356). Over the same period, the Black share declined from 25% to 19%.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.