Enrollment
340
Elementary
DISTRICT 333 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·IOWA CITY COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 191470000887
Helen Lemme Elementary School
3100 Washington St, Iowa City, IA 52245 · (319) 688-1125 · Johnson County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL340 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 30% of Iowa public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
13.8:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.4:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
38%
130 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 | 33 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 52 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 54 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 37 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 55 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 61 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 48 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (52) is 8% larger than its 5th grade class (48).
Student demographics
57%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
66.5%
IA avg 73.6% . -6.2pp since 2023
Math
65.8%
IA avg 70.9% . -12.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 12 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 66.5% | 65.8% |
| 2023-24 | 72.7% | 78.0% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: ISASP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
69.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
72.8%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 73% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Iowa's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Helen Lemme Elementary School
Helen Lemme Elementary School's state test result (69.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helen Lemme Elementary School this school | 340 | 38.2% | 69.9% |
| Hubbell Elementary Des Moines | 362 | 42.8% | 67.1% |
| Neil Armstrong Elementary School Eldridge | 369 | 38.8% | 76.4% |
| Prairie View Elementary School Cedar Rapids | 430 | 35.6% | 84.8% |
| Early Childhood Center Fort Dodge | 376 | 42.0% | N/A |
| Prairie Heights Elementary School Cedar Rapids | 403 | 40.2% | 67.5% |
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 Helen Lemme Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Johnson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 69.9% | #332 of 564 | #15 of 28 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 65.8% | #439 of 564 ▼ 185 | #19 of 28 ▼ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 66.5% | #388 of 564 ▼ 136 | #18 of 28 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 340 | #308 of 705 | #13 of 30 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #327 of 561 | #17 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.5% | #168 of 561 | #18 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 38.2% | #387 of 666 | #13 of 30 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.6% | #229 of 359 | #16 of 20 |
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
340
+1 (+0%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 354
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 16.1:1
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 | 340 | 24.6 | 13.8:1 | 38% (130) |
| 2023-24 | 371 | 27.8 | 13.3:1 | 37% (138) |
| 2022-23 | 391 | 24.9 | 15.7:1 | 35% (136) |
| 2020-21 | 339 | 21 | 16.1:1 | 27% (92) |
| 2017-18 | 376 | 24.9 | 15.1:1 | 29% (109) |
| 2015-16 | 390 | 25 | 15.6:1 | 27% (107) |
| 2010-11 | 333 | 21 | 15.9:1 | 30% (99) |
| 2000-01 | 304 | 16 | 19.0:1 | 21% (64) |
| 1990-91 | 354 | 20 | 17.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Helen Lemme Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (376 to 340); teachers down 1% (24.9 to 24.6).
About Helen Lemme Elementary School
Helen Lemme Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Iowa City, Iowa, one of the schools in Iowa City Comm School District. It offers pre-K through 5 and has 340 students enrolled.
The district for Helen Lemme Elementary School is Iowa City Comm School District, with 29 schools and 15,111 students.
White students are 61% of those enrolled at Helen Lemme Elementary School. The rest of enrollment is 18% Hispanic, 15% Black, and 5% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of Johnson County's population at about 76%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 57%.
Helen Lemme Elementary School reports a ratio of 13.8 students per teacher, from 24.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is in line with the 13.7:1 average for elementary schools in Iowa. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Helen Lemme Elementary School, 38% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Johnson County is similar, at 37%.
On the allk12 Grade, Helen Lemme Elementary School lands at C, ahead of 30% of Iowa public elementary schools.
A school with Helen Lemme Elementary School's lunch-eligibility share in Iowa is predicted to score 72.8%. Helen Lemme Elementary School scores 69.9%, 2.9 points below that line.
In Johnson County, home to about 156,639 people, median household income comes to about $74,935, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 55%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. There are 43 public schools in the county, enrolling about 20,019, Helen Lemme Elementary School among them.
Robert Lucas Elementary School sits about 0.8 miles from Helen Lemme Elementary School. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Of the 7 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Helen Lemme Elementary School is 1st on average proficiency.
Its location is classified as City: Small by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Federal data show 339 students in 2020-21 and 340 in 2024-25, a difference of under 3%. By 2024-25, the school had 13.8 students per teacher, compared with 16.1 in 2020-21.
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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
Nearby schools
- Robert Lucas Elementary School0.8 mi · 245
- Iowa City High School1.0 mi · 1,666
- Southeast Middle School1.3 mi · 1,269
- Elizabeth Tate Alt. High School1.5 mi · 180
- Herbert Hoover Elementary School1.5 mi · 464
- ICCSD Online Learning Program1.6 mi · 173
Frequently asked questions
About Helen Lemme Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Helen Lemme Elementary School?
Helen Lemme Elementary School enrolls approximately 340 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Helen Lemme Elementary School serve?
Helen Lemme Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Helen Lemme Elementary School have?
Helen Lemme Elementary School employs 25 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.8:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Helen Lemme Elementary School?
At Helen Lemme Elementary School, the student body is approximately 61% White, 18% Hispanic, 15% Black, 0% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Helen Lemme Elementary School public or private?
Helen Lemme 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.