Longfellow Elementary School

Longfellow Elementary School operates as a mid-sized elementary-level community in Iowa City, Iowa, overseen by Iowa City Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 325 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Longfellow Elementary School is one of 29 schools operated by Iowa City Comm School District, a district that hosts 15,111 students overall.

On demographics, Longfellow Elementary School records that the most-represented group is White (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 26% Black, 20% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 76%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Johnson County's rate of about 37%.

After controlling for student poverty, Longfellow Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.2%, the actual is 64.0%, a residual of -1.2 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Johnson County) reports that median household income runs about $74,935, 55% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Johnson County's 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,019 students), Longfellow Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Mark Twain Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Longfellow Elementary School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 62.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Longfellow Elementary School has declined 3%, going from 335 students in 2018 to 325 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 81% to 44%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

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