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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at McKinley Elementary School this year?
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Enrollment
421
Elementary
DISTRICT 335 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DAVENPORT COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 190858000479
McKinley Elementary School
1716 Kenwood Ave, Davenport, IA 52803 · (563) 723-6800 · Scott County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL421 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 14% 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.
- DBeats 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
13.6:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
201 students
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 41%
Community
6
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 72 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 74 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 66 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 68 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 72 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (72) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (72).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · 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
64.6%
IA avg 73.6% . -0.5pp since 2023
Math
61.9%
IA avg 70.9% . +1.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 65 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 have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 64.6% | 61.9% |
| 2023-24 | 65.1% | 60.6% |
% 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
61.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.1%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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 McKinley Elementary School
McKinley Elementary School's state test result (61.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| McKinley Elementary School this school | 421 | 47.7% | 61.0% |
| Eisenhower Elementary School Davenport | 412 | 48.1% | 67.0% |
| Harrison Elementary School Davenport | 459 | 52.1% | 66.6% |
| Grant Wood Elementary School Bettendorf | 433 | 47.3% | 68.9% |
| Hanawalt Elementary Des Moines | 312 | 49.4% | 65.9% |
| Central Elementary School Coralville | 343 | 48.1% | 62.8% |
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 McKinley Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Scott County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.0% | #457 of 564 | #22 of 31 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.9% | #463 of 564 ▲ 4 | #23 of 31 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 64.6% | #409 of 564 ▼ 39 | #19 of 31 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 421 | #194 of 705 | #12 of 34 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.6:1 | #300 of 561 | #13 of 29 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.3% | #45 of 561 | #8 of 29 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 47.7% | #247 of 666 | #15 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +12.3% | #72 of 168 | #4 of 11 |
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
421
-3 (-1%) vs 2020
-24% since 1990-91, when it was 555
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 421 | 31 | 13.6:1 | 48% (201) |
| 2023-24 | 517 | 35.6 | 14.5:1 | 52% (270) |
| 2022-23 | 413 | 29.8 | 13.9:1 | 48% (200) |
| 2020-21 | 424 | 31 | 13.7:1 | 56% (236) |
| 2017-18 | 375 | 31 | 12.1:1 | 57% (212) |
| 2015-16 | 381 | 31 | 12.3:1 | 57% (216) |
| 2010-11 | 360 | 25 | 14.4:1 | 59% (212) |
| 2000-01 | 278 | 22 | 12.6:1 | 45% (125) |
| 1990-91 | 555 | 35 | 15.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for McKinley Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 12% (375 to 421); teachers unchanged (31 to 31).
About McKinley Elementary School
McKinley Elementary School operates as a medium-sized elementary school in Davenport, Iowa. Enrolled students number 421 students, in kindergarten through 5. Statewide, elementary schools in Iowa average about 325 students each.
Davenport Comm School District serves 12,812 students across 27 schools.
White students form the largest group at McKinley Elementary School, 44% of enrollment. Other groups include 26% Black, 14% multiracial, 13% Hispanic, and 3% Asian. By comparison, Scott County residents are about 79% White. By the diversity index, McKinley Elementary School comes in at 70%.
A ratio of 13.6:1 comes from the school's 31 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in Iowa average about 13.7:1, a similar figure. The lunch program counts 48% of students at McKinley Elementary School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That is 10 points above the 38% average for public schools in Scott County.
McKinley Elementary School is graded D by allk12, scoring above 14% of Iowa public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
McKinley Elementary School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Iowa schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 61.0% and a predicted 68.1%.
In the county around the school, Scott County, median household income is about $78,277, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. McKinley Elementary School is among the 53 public schools in Scott County.
Eisenhower Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, McKinley Elementary School is ahead of the 58.8% nearby average, ranking 5th of 8.
NCES assigns McKinley Elementary School the locale City: Mid-size, meaning inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment was essentially flat over 4 years: 424 in 2020-21, 421 in 2024-25.
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Scott County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
174,608
Census ACS
Median income
$78,277
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
53
26,100 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Davenport Comm School District
- West High SchoolHigh · 1,304 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 1,288 students
- North High SchoolHigh · 1,190 students
- Sudlow Middle SchoolMiddle · 734 students
- Wood Middle SchoolMiddle · 629 students
- Williams Middle SchoolMiddle · 577 students
Other schools in Davenport
- West High SchoolHigh · 1,304 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 1,288 students
- North High SchoolHigh · 1,190 students
- Sudlow Middle SchoolMiddle · 734 students
- Wood Middle SchoolMiddle · 629 students
- Williams Middle SchoolMiddle · 577 students
Other McKinley Elementary schools
55 other US public schools in 19 states are named McKinley Elementary. McKinley Elementary School is the 20th largest of the 56.
- McKinley Elementary SchoolMuscatine, IA · 394 students
- McKinley Elementary SchoolDes Moines, IA · 275 students
- McKinley Elementary SchoolNEWARK, NJ · 917 students
- McKinley ElementaryStockton, CA · 705 students
- McKinley ElementaryFresno, CA · 671 students
Nearby schools
- Eisenhower Elementary School0.8 mi · 412
- Children's Village At Hoover0.8 mi · 139
- Sudlow Middle School1.0 mi · 734
- Mark Twain Elementary School1.5 mi · 409
- Grant Wood Elementary School1.6 mi · 433
- Garfield Elementary School1.6 mi · 393
Frequently asked questions
About McKinley Elementary SchoolHow many students attend McKinley Elementary School?
McKinley Elementary School enrolls approximately 421 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does McKinley Elementary School serve?
McKinley Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at McKinley Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at McKinley Elementary School is approximately 13.6:1 (31 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at McKinley Elementary School?
At McKinley Elementary School, the student body is approximately 44% White, 13% Hispanic, 26% Black, 3% Asian, 14% Two or more.
Is McKinley Elementary School public or private?
McKinley Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Davenport Comm School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.