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Enrollment
385
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LINN-MAR COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 191722001525
Linn Grove Elementary School
2301 50th St, Marion, IA 52302 · (319) 730-3500 · Linn County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL385 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 45% 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.
- B-Beats 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
13.7:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
44%
171 students
DISTRICT 26% · STATE 41%
Community
1
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 | 51 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 63 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 67 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 64 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 67 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (63) is 14% smaller than its 4th grade class (73).
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · 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
67.7%
IA avg 73.6% . -5.3pp since 2023
Math
67.6%
IA avg 70.9% . -6.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 7 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.7% | 67.6% |
| 2023-24 | 73.0% | 74.5% |
% 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
70.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.7%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% 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 Linn Grove Elementary School
Linn Grove Elementary School's state test result (70.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linn Grove Elementary School this school | 385 | 44.4% | 70.5% |
| East Elementary School Ankeny | 409 | 46.2% | 70.9% |
| Meeker Elementary School Ames | 361 | 42.1% | 75.9% |
| Sergeant Bluff-Luton Primary School Sergeant Bluff | 349 | 39.8% | N/A |
| Jefferson Elementary School Des Moines | 312 | 41.3% | 70.7% |
| Hoover Elementary School Dubuque | 292 | 44.5% | 63.9% |
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 Linn Grove Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Linn County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.5% | #320 of 564 | #20 of 39 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.6% | #418 of 564 ▼ 98 | #28 of 39 ▼ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.7% | #375 of 564 ▼ 131 | #24 of 39 ▼ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 385 | #242 of 705 | #19 of 45 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.7:1 | #315 of 561 | #19 of 42 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.1% | #207 of 561 | #24 of 42 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 44.4% | #291 of 666 | #20 of 44 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -27.6% | #42 of 359 | #5 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
385
-66 (-15%) vs 2020
-23% since 2010-11, when it was 499
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
was 13.3:1
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 | 385 | 28.1 | 13.7:1 | 44% (171) |
| 2023-24 | 399 | 30.6 | 13.1:1 | 43% (173) |
| 2022-23 | 412 | 33.4 | 12.3:1 | 39% (162) |
| 2020-21 | 451 | 34 | 13.3:1 | 34% (154) |
| 2017-18 | 532 | 34.5 | 15.4:1 | 34% (182) |
| 2015-16 | 563 | 36 | 15.6:1 | 37% (206) |
| 2010-11 | 499 | 33 | 15.1:1 | 27% (136) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Linn Grove Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 28% (532 to 385); teachers down 19% (34.5 to 28.1).
About Linn Grove Elementary School
Linn Grove Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Marion, Iowa, under Linn-Mar Comm School District. It is open to students in pre-K through 4 and enrolls 385 students.
Linn Grove Elementary School sits within Linn-Mar Comm School District, which has 12 schools and 7,361 students.
White students are 68% of those enrolled at Linn Grove Elementary School. Next come 10% Hispanic, 10% Black, 9% multiracial, and 3% Asian. That compares with about 84% White among all Linn County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 51%.
Teacher count: 28.1 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 13.7:1. It is about the same as the 13.7:1 average for elementary schools in Iowa. Roughly 44% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among Iowa public elementary schools, Linn Grove Elementary School outscored 45%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 69.7% for Linn Grove Elementary School. The school posts 70.5%, within a point of the prediction.
Looking at the county, Linn County, median household income comes to about $77,649, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. The county has 83 public schools and about 36,480 students.
Among nearby public schools, Boulder Peak Intermediate School is closest at about 1.1 miles. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Nearby schools with test data average 75.9% proficiency; Linn Grove Elementary School posts 70.5%.
In the federal locale system, Linn Grove Elementary School is coded Suburb: Mid-size, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The school shrank from 451 students in 2020-21 to 385 in 2024-25.
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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 Linn-Mar Comm School District
- Linn-Mar High SchoolHigh · 2,229 students
- Boulder Peak Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 613 students
- Excelsior Middle SchoolMiddle · 594 students
- Hazel Point Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 563 students
- Echo Hill ElementaryElementary · 536 students
- Oak Ridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 534 students
Other schools in Marion
- Linn-Mar High SchoolHigh · 2,229 students
- Marion High SchoolHigh · 735 students
- Boulder Peak Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 613 students
- Excelsior Middle SchoolMiddle · 594 students
- Vernon Middle SchoolMiddle · 587 students
- Hazel Point Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 563 students
Nearby schools
- Boulder Peak Intermediate School1.1 mi · 613
- Wilkins Elementary School1.4 mi · 348
- Longfellow Elementary1.5 mi · 254
- Indian Creek Elementary School2.0 mi · 354
- Francis Marion Intermediate School2.0 mi · 320
- Linn-Mar High School2.3 mi · 2,229
Frequently asked questions
About Linn Grove Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Linn Grove Elementary School?
Linn Grove Elementary School enrolls approximately 385 students in grades PK-04.
Is Linn Grove Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Linn Grove Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-04.
How many teachers does Linn Grove Elementary School have?
Linn Grove Elementary School employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.7:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Linn Grove Elementary School?
At Linn Grove Elementary School, the student body is approximately 68% White, 10% Hispanic, 10% Black, 3% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Linn Grove Elementary School public or private?
Linn Grove Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Linn-Mar Comm School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.