North Bend Elementary

North Bend Elementary operates as a mid-tier K-5 school in North Liberty, Iowa, part of Clear Creek Amana Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 326 students spanning grades K through 3.

North Bend Elementary is one of 9 schools operated by Clear Creek Amana Comm School District, a district that teaches 3,156 students overall.

In terms of who attends, North Bend Elementary shows that 60% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school records 18% Black, 10% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 76% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, North Bend Elementary reports 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting North Bend Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 30% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, North Bend Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 76.8%, the actual is 77.6%, a residual of +0.8 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Johnson County indicate median household earnings sit near $74,935, roughly 55% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Johnson County runs 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,019 students), of which North Bend Elementary is one.

Buford Garner Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, North Bend Elementary comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 74.1%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 29%: 458 students in 2018 compared to 326 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 79% to 60%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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