Enrollment
306
Elementary
DISTRICT 333 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·IOWA CITY COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 191470000886
Grant Wood Elementary School
1930 Lakeside Dr, Iowa City, IA 52240 · (319) 688-1180 · Johnson County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL306 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 6% 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
10.9:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.4:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
208 students
DISTRICT 45% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 22 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 48 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 37 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 48 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 41 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 51 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (48) is 6% smaller than its 5th grade class (51).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · 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
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ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
54.4%
IA avg 73.6% . +4.4pp since 2023
Math
48.8%
IA avg 70.9% . +7.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.4% | 48.8% |
| 2023-24 | 50.0% | 41.7% |
% 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
47.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.0%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% 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 Wood Elementary School
Grant Wood Elementary School's state test result (47.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grant Wood Elementary School this school | 306 | 68.0% | 47.5% |
| Kirkwood Elementary School Coralville | 270 | 69.6% | 47.8% |
| Jefferson Elementary School Davenport | 384 | 71.1% | 24.2% |
| Johnson STEAM Academy School Cedar Rapids | 324 | 70.4% | 40.0% |
| Alexander Elementary Iowa City | 436 | 75.9% | 52.2% |
| Mark Twain Elementary Iowa City | 213 | 66.7% | 53.4% |
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 Wood Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Johnson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.5% | #518 of 564 | #27 of 28 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.8% | #525 of 564 ▲ 23 | #26 of 28 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.4% | #487 of 564 ▲ 10 | #25 of 28 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 306 | #363 of 705 | #17 of 30 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.9:1 | #30 of 561 | #4 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.5% | #93 of 561 | #10 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 68.0% | #85 of 666 | #4 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
306
-37 (-11%) vs 2020
-25% since 1990-91, when it was 407
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
was 12.3:1
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 | 306 | 28.1 | 10.9:1 | 68% (208) |
| 2023-24 | 391 | 30.7 | 12.7:1 | 72% (282) |
| 2022-23 | 391 | 35.1 | 11.1:1 | 73% (286) |
| 2020-21 | 343 | 28 | 12.3:1 | 65% (222) |
| 2017-18 | 306 | 29.3 | 10.4:1 | 67% (206) |
| 2015-16 | 356 | 30 | 11.9:1 | 75% (266) |
| 2010-11 | 470 | 36 | 13.1:1 | 69% (323) |
| 2000-01 | 496 | 26 | 19.1:1 | 35% (172) |
| 1990-91 | 407 | 22 | 18.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Grant Wood Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (306 to 306); teachers down 4% (29.3 to 28.1).
About Grant Wood Elementary School
Grant Wood Elementary School is a public elementary school in Iowa City, Iowa. Students in pre-K through 5 attend the school, which enrolls 306 students.
Within Iowa City Comm School District, Grant Wood Elementary School is one of 29 schools. The district enrolls 15,111 students.
Grant Wood Elementary School's enrollment has no majority group, and Black students are the largest at 50%. The school is also 23% Hispanic, 20% White, and 6% multiracial. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 8%. Grant Wood Elementary School has a diversity index of 65%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Teachers at the school number 28.1 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 10.9:1. The 13.7:1 average for elementary schools in Iowa is higher than this school's figure. Roughly 68% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 37% for public schools in Johnson County.
The allk12 Grade for Grant Wood Elementary School is D. Compared with Iowa public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 6% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Grant Wood Elementary School scores 10.4 points below its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests: 47.5% actual versus 58.0% predicted. That puts it in the bottom 10% of Iowa schools on BeatsExpectations.
Johnson County census figures show that median household income is about $74,935, roughly 55% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. Grant Wood Elementary School is among the 43 public schools in Johnson County.
The shortest distance from Grant Wood Elementary School to another public school is about 0.7 miles, to Elizabeth Tate Alt. High School. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, Grant Wood Elementary School ranks 8th on average proficiency.
Locale: City: Small. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Grant Wood Elementary School had 343 students in 2020-21 and 306 in 2024-25, an 11% decrease. Its ratio of students to teachers was 12.3:1 in 2020-21, and 10.9:1 in 2024-25.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for Grant Wood Elementary School covering things like enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Johnson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
156,639
Census ACS
Median income
$74,935
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
55%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
43
20,019 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Iowa City Comm School District
- Iowa City High SchoolHigh · 1,666 students
- West Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,514 students
- Liberty High SchoolHigh · 1,286 students
- Southeast Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,269 students
- Northwest Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,113 students
- North Central Middle SchoolMiddle · 925 students
Other schools in Iowa City
- Iowa City High SchoolHigh · 1,666 students
- West Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,514 students
- Southeast Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,269 students
- Herbert Hoover Elementary SchoolElementary · 464 students
- Weber ElementaryElementary · 456 students
- Ernest Horn Elementary SchoolElementary · 453 students
Other Grant Wood Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 1 state are named Grant Wood Elementary. Grant Wood Elementary School is the 3rd largest of the 3.
- Grant Wood Elementary SchoolBettendorf, IA · 433 students
- Grant Wood Elementary SchoolCedar Rapids, IA · 356 students
Nearby schools
- Elizabeth Tate Alt. High School0.7 mi · 180
- Mark Twain Elementary0.7 mi · 213
- Southeast Middle School0.8 mi · 1,269
- Alexander Elementary0.9 mi · 436
- Robert Lucas Elementary School1.4 mi · 245
- Longfellow Elementary School1.5 mi · 325
Frequently asked questions
About Grant Wood Elementary SchoolHow large is Grant Wood Elementary School?
Grant Wood Elementary School enrolls approximately 306 students in grades PK-05.
Is Grant Wood Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Grant Wood Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Grant Wood Elementary School have?
Grant Wood Elementary School employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.9:1.
How diverse is Grant Wood Elementary School?
Grant Wood Elementary School reports a student body of 20% White, 23% Hispanic, 50% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Grant Wood Elementary School public or private?
Grant Wood Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Iowa City Comm School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.