Nixon Elementary School

Nixon Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary-level community in Hiawatha, Iowa, operated by Cedar Rapids Comm School District. The school hosts 289 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Cedar Rapids Comm School District, which oversees 35 schools and 15,494 students, Nixon Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Nixon Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 19% Black, 12% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 9% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Nixon Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 67% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Linn County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Nixon Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.2%, the actual is 61.0%, a residual of +2.8 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Linn County indicate median household earnings sit near $77,649, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Linn County's 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,480 students), Nixon Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Hiawatha Elementary School, roughly 0.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Nixon Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 73.8%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Nixon Elementary School's enrollment has fell 13% since 2018, when it stood at 333 (now 289). White enrollment moved from 67% to 48% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for Nixon Elementary School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.