Jefferson Elementary School

Jefferson Elementary School is one of the average-sized elementary schools in Davenport, Iowa, one of the schools within Davenport Comm School District, with 384 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Davenport Comm School District comprises 27 schools with combined enrollment of 12,812 students; Jefferson Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Jefferson Elementary School logs that the largest single group is Black at 41%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest consists of 21% Hispanic, 19% multiracial, 18% White. The wider county runs roughly 7% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Jefferson Elementary School reports 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.9:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 71% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Scott County's rate of about 38%.

With demographic context factored in, Jefferson Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 56.4%; this one comes in at 24.2%, -32.2 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, census data for Scott County shows median household income runs about $78,277, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Scott County runs 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,100 students), of which Jefferson Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Children's Village West, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Jefferson Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 45.2%.

Jefferson Elementary School operates from an urban location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Jefferson Elementary School has fell 15%, going from 450 students in 2018 to 384 in 2025.

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