Enrollment
334
Elementary
DISTRICT 332 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CEDAR RAPIDS COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 190654000247
Hiawatha Elementary School
603 Emmons ST, Hiawatha, IA 52233 · (319) 558-2172 · Linn County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL334 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 43% 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.
- BBeats 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
11.9:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
53%
177 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 33 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 49 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 56 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 39 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 50 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 48 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 59 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (49) is 17% smaller than its 5th grade class (59).
Student demographics
60%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
68.5%
IA avg 73.6% . +1.2pp since 2023
Math
72.7%
IA avg 70.9% . +0.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 68.5% | 72.7% |
| 2023-24 | 67.3% | 72.6% |
% 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
67.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.4%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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 Hiawatha Elementary School
Hiawatha Elementary School's state test result (67.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hiawatha Elementary School this school | 334 | 53.0% | 67.7% |
| Kingsley Elementary School Waterloo | 337 | 49.9% | 75.3% |
| Delaware Elementary Des Moines | 440 | 45.9% | 77.2% |
| Mitchell Elementary School Ames | 314 | 55.7% | 72.5% |
| East Elementary School Ankeny | 409 | 46.2% | 70.9% |
| Neil Armstrong Elementary School Bettendorf | 268 | 53.0% | 64.5% |
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 Hiawatha Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Linn County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 67.7% | #368 of 564 | #24 of 39 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 72.7% | #343 of 564 ▼ 1 | #21 of 39 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.5% | #350 of 564 ▼ 9 | #22 of 39 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 334 | #314 of 705 | #26 of 45 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.9:1 | #105 of 561 | #5 of 42 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.9% | #137 of 561 | #17 of 42 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 53.0% | #185 of 666 | #16 of 44 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.7% | #96 of 359 | #10 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
334
-11 (-3%) vs 2020
-37% since 1990-91, when it was 534
Student : Teacher
11.9:1
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 | 334 | 28 | 11.9:1 | 53% (177) |
| 2023-24 | 343 | 25.5 | 13.4:1 | 60% (205) |
| 2022-23 | 328 | 23.9 | 13.8:1 | 54% (178) |
| 2020-21 | 345 | 28 | 12.3:1 | 58% (201) |
| 2017-18 | 416 | 29.4 | 14.1:1 | 61% (252) |
| 2015-16 | 454 | 30 | 15.1:1 | 60% (274) |
| 2010-11 | 453 | 32 | 14.2:1 | 54% (246) |
| 2000-01 | 543 | 29 | 18.7:1 | 24% (132) |
| 1990-91 | 534 | 29 | 18.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hiawatha Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (416 to 334); teachers down 5% (29.4 to 28).
About Hiawatha Elementary School
Hiawatha Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Hiawatha, Iowa, administered by Cedar Rapids Comm School District. Enrollment stands at 334 students, covering pre-K through 5.
Hiawatha Elementary School is in Cedar Rapids Comm School District, a district with 15,494 students across 35 schools.
At Hiawatha Elementary School, 60% of students are White. It is also 15% Hispanic, 10% Black, 9% multiracial, and 6% Asian. For comparison, the population of Linn County is roughly 84% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Hiawatha Elementary School scores 60%.
Staffing at Hiawatha Elementary School comes to 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 11.9:1. Elementary schools in Iowa average 13.7:1, 1.8 more students per teacher than here. Hiawatha Elementary School counts 53% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Linn County averages 40%, lower than here.
On the allk12 Grade, Hiawatha Elementary School lands at C+, ahead of 43% of Iowa public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Hiawatha Elementary School falls in the middle 80% of Iowa schools: 67.7% actual against 65.4% predicted.
In Linn County, the median household earns about $77,649 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 35%, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Linn County has 83 public schools with about 36,480 students, including Hiawatha Elementary School.
Hiawatha Elementary School's closest public school neighbor is Nixon Elementary School, about 0.7 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, Hiawatha Elementary School ranks 6th on average proficiency.
NCES assigns Hiawatha Elementary School the locale Suburb: Mid-size, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Hiawatha Elementary School had a net loss of 11 students, or 3%.
The allk12 page for Hiawatha Elementary School lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
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 Hiawatha Elementary schools
7 other US public schools in 8 states are named Hiawatha Elementary. Hiawatha Elementary School is the 5th largest of the 8.
- Hiawatha Elementary SchoolOthello, WA · 579 students
- Hiawatha Elementary SchoolOKEMOS, MI · 441 students
- Hiawatha Elementary SchoolBerwyn, IL · 394 students
- Hiawatha ElemHiawatha, KS · 337 students
- Hiawatha Elementary SchoolToledo, OH · 309 students
Nearby schools
- Nixon Elementary School0.7 mi · 289
- John F Kennedy High School0.9 mi · 1,648
- Pierce Elementary School1.1 mi · 334
- Harding Middle School1.8 mi · 710
- Viola Gibson Elementary School1.8 mi · 565
- Wright Elementary School1.8 mi · 282
Frequently asked questions
About Hiawatha Elementary SchoolHow large is Hiawatha Elementary School?
Hiawatha Elementary School enrolls approximately 334 students in grades PK-05.
Is Hiawatha Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Hiawatha Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Hiawatha Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Hiawatha Elementary School is approximately 11.9:1 (28 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Hiawatha Elementary School?
Hiawatha Elementary School reports a student body of 60% White, 15% Hispanic, 10% Black, 6% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees Hiawatha Elementary School?
Hiawatha Elementary School is overseen by Cedar Rapids Comm School District in Linn County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.