Maple Grove Elementary

Maple Grove Elementary operates as a roomy elementary campus in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, part of Cedar Rapids Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 539 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 66% above the typical public school in Iowa, which averages around 325 students.

Across the 35 schools in Cedar Rapids Comm School District (15,494 students total), Maple Grove Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Maple Grove Elementary logs that 68% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 13% Black, 10% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 84% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.4:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 41% 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, Maple Grove Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.3%, the actual is 76.9%, a residual of +5.5 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Linn County indicate median household earnings sit near $77,649, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Linn County runs 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,480 students), of which Maple Grove Elementary is one.

Madison Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Maple Grove Elementary comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 56.4%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 35%: 400 students in 2018 compared to 539 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 76% to 68% over that span.

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