Grant Wood Elementary School

Located at 1930 Lakeside Dr, in Iowa City, Iowa, Grant Wood Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack primary school that educates 306 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Iowa City Comm School District.

Across the 29 schools in Iowa City Comm School District (15,111 students total), Grant Wood Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Grant Wood Elementary School shows that the most-represented group is Black (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 23% Hispanic, 20% White, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Johnson County as a whole is about 8% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Grant Wood Elementary School lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Grant Wood Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 68% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Johnson County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Grant Wood Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 58.0%; this one comes in at 47.5%, -10.4 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, census data for Johnson County shows median household income runs about $74,935, roughly 55% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Johnson County's 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,019 students), Grant Wood Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Elizabeth Tate Alt. High School, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Grant Wood Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Grant Wood Elementary School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 62.1%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 306 students in 2018 compared to 306 in 2025.

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