Neil Armstrong Elementary School

Neil Armstrong Elementary School is one of the close-knit elementary schools in Bettendorf, Iowa, operated by Bettendorf Comm School District, with 268 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Bettendorf Comm School District comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 4,257 students; Neil Armstrong Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Neil Armstrong Elementary School shows that the most-represented group is White (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 16% Black, 15% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Scott County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.8:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Scott County (around 38%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Neil Armstrong Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.4%, the actual is 64.5%, a residual of -0.9 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Scott County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $78,277 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Neil Armstrong Elementary School is one of 53 public schools in Scott County (combined enrollment of about 26,100 students).

Nearest neighbor: Riverdale Heights Elem School, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Neil Armstrong Elementary School at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 67.9%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Neil Armstrong Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 7% since 2018, when it stood at 289 (now 268). The White share of enrollment shrank from 65% to 55% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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