Enrollment
325
Elementary
DISTRICT 333 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·IOWA CITY COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 191470000895
Longfellow Elementary School
1130 Seymour Ave, Iowa City, IA 52240 · (319) 688-1135 · Johnson County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL325 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 25% of Iowa public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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
10.9:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.4:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
174 students
DISTRICT 45% · 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 | 12 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 44 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 46 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 46 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 50 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 61 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 66 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (44) is 33% smaller than its 5th grade class (66).
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · 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
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ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
68.1%
IA avg 73.6% . +1.9pp since 2023
Math
62.0%
IA avg 70.9% . -0.4pp 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 62 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 68.1% | 62.0% |
| 2023-24 | 66.2% | 62.4% |
% 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
64.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.2%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% 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 Longfellow Elementary School
Longfellow Elementary School's state test result (64.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Longfellow Elementary School this school | 325 | 53.5% | 64.0% |
| Children's Village West Davenport | 296 | 52.4% | N/A |
| Jackson Elementary School Davenport | 322 | 56.8% | 48.2% |
| Garfield Elementary School Davenport | 393 | 59.0% | 47.9% |
| Hanawalt Elementary Des Moines | 312 | 49.4% | 65.9% |
| Adams Elementary School Davenport | 498 | 57.2% | 48.8% |
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 Longfellow Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Johnson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.0% | #424 of 564 | #20 of 28 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #462 of 564 ▼ 6 | #22 of 28 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.1% | #359 of 564 ▼ 7 | #17 of 28 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 325 | #327 of 705 | #15 of 30 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.9:1 | #32 of 561 | #5 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.9% | #60 of 561 | #4 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 53.5% | #178 of 666 | #8 of 30 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.0% | #326 of 359 | #20 of 20 |
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
325
-67 (-17%) vs 2020
-10% since 1990-91, when it was 362
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
was 13.5:1
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 | 325 | 29.9 | 10.9:1 | 54% (174) |
| 2023-24 | 361 | 31.4 | 11.5:1 | 54% (195) |
| 2022-23 | 385 | 31.7 | 12.2:1 | 57% (221) |
| 2020-21 | 392 | 29 | 13.5:1 | 39% (153) |
| 2017-18 | 335 | 25.2 | 13.3:1 | 18% (61) |
| 2015-16 | 334 | 20 | 16.7:1 | 23% (77) |
| 2010-11 | 316 | 19 | 16.6:1 | 21% (65) |
| 2000-01 | 281 | 14 | 20.1:1 | 21% (59) |
| 1990-91 | 362 | 16 | 22.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Longfellow Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (335 to 325); teachers up 18% (25.2 to 29.9).
About Longfellow Elementary School
In Iowa City, Iowa, part of Johnson County, Longfellow Elementary School is an elementary school. It educates 325 students in pre-K through 5.
Iowa City Comm School District is made up of 29 schools with 15,111 students in all.
White students form the largest group at Longfellow Elementary School, 44% of enrollment. Next come 26% Black, 20% Hispanic, and 8% multiracial. That compares with about 76% White among all Johnson County residents. The chance that two students picked at random at Longfellow Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 69%.
The count of teachers at Longfellow Elementary School is 29.9 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 10.9:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Iowa is 13.7:1, higher than at this school. Around 54% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. It compares with 37% for public schools in Johnson County.
Longfellow Elementary School is graded C by allk12, scoring above 25% of Iowa public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On BeatsExpectations, Longfellow Elementary School is 1.2 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Iowa schools.
County data help place the school in context: in Johnson County, median household income is about $74,935, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 55%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Longfellow Elementary School is among the 43 public schools in Johnson County.
Mark Twain Elementary is the closest public school, about 0.7 miles away in a straight line. Longfellow Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. The school's 64.0% average proficiency ranks 5th among 8 nearby schools.
Locale: City: Small. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
The 2024-25 enrollment of 325 was 17% lower than in 2020-21, when it was 392. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 10.9:1, from 13.5:1.
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Johnson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
156,639
Census ACS
Median income
$74,935
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
55%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
43
20,019 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Iowa City Comm School District
- Iowa City High SchoolHigh · 1,666 students
- West Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,514 students
- Liberty High SchoolHigh · 1,286 students
- Southeast Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,269 students
- Northwest Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,113 students
- North Central Middle SchoolMiddle · 925 students
Other schools in Iowa City
- Iowa City High SchoolHigh · 1,666 students
- West Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,514 students
- Southeast Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,269 students
- Herbert Hoover Elementary SchoolElementary · 464 students
- Weber ElementaryElementary · 456 students
- Ernest Horn Elementary SchoolElementary · 453 students
Other Longfellow Elementary schools
36 other US public schools in 18 states are named Longfellow Elementary. Longfellow Elementary School is the 22nd largest of the 37.
- Longfellow Elementary SchoolCouncil Bluffs, IA · 431 students
- Longfellow Elementary SchoolBelle Plaine, IA · 267 students
- Longfellow ElementaryMarion, IA · 254 students
- Longfellow ElementaryLong Beach, CA · 904 students
- Longfellow ElementaryBakersfield, CA · 780 students
Nearby schools
- Mark Twain Elementary0.7 mi · 213
- Iowa City High School0.7 mi · 1,666
- Elizabeth Tate Alt. High School1.0 mi · 180
- Horace Mann Elementary School1.0 mi · 207
- Southeast Middle School1.1 mi · 1,269
- Robert Lucas Elementary School1.4 mi · 245
Frequently asked questions
About Longfellow Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Longfellow Elementary School?
Longfellow Elementary School enrolls approximately 325 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Longfellow Elementary School serve?
Longfellow Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Longfellow Elementary School have?
Longfellow Elementary School employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Longfellow Elementary School?
Student demographics at Longfellow Elementary School are roughly 44% White, 20% Hispanic, 26% Black, 1% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Longfellow Elementary School in?
Longfellow Elementary School is part of Iowa City Comm School District.
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