Lewis & Clark Elementary School

Lewis & Clark Elementary School, a low-enrollment elementary-level community in Council Bluffs, Iowa, one of the schools within Council Bluffs Comm School District, caters to 271 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Within Council Bluffs Comm School District, which oversees 15 schools and 8,299 students, Lewis & Clark Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Lewis & Clark Elementary School records that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 10% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lewis & Clark Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 75.0%; this one delivers 68.0%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Pottawattamie County put median household income runs about $73,602, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Pottawattamie County runs 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,270 students), of which Lewis & Clark Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Hoover Elementary School, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lewis & Clark Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lewis & Clark Elementary School at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 60.5%.

Lewis & Clark Elementary School operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 16%: 234 students in 2018 compared to 271 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 4% to 10% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.

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