Lowell Elementary School

Set in Waterloo, Iowa, Lowell Elementary School is a high-enrollment elementary school, operated by Waterloo Comm School District. It works with 538 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 66% larger than the state mean of about 325.

Waterloo Comm School District comprises 18 schools with combined enrollment of 10,484 students; Lowell Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Lowell Elementary School logs that 27% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 27% Black, 24% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 6% Pacific Islander. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Lowell Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 78% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Black Hawk County's rate of about 52%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lowell Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.0%; this one delivers 51.0%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Black Hawk County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $66,417 per year, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Black Hawk County's 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,224 students), Lowell Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Irving Elementary School, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lowell Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lowell Elementary School at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 56.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lowell Elementary School has increased 75%, going from 308 students in 2018 to 538 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 18% to 24% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

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