Prairie Creek

Set in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Prairie Creek is a heavily attended junior high, part of College Comm School District. It educates 846 students across grades 5 through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 112% above the state mean of about 400.

Across the 10 schools in College Comm School District (5,792 students total), Prairie Creek accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Prairie Creek lists that 69% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 14% Black, 7% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Linn County as a whole is about 84% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.2:1 average. Roughly 34% of students at Prairie Creek qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Prairie Creek performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 74.9%, the actual is 67.5%, a residual of -7.3 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Linn County indicate median household earnings sit near $77,649, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Linn County runs 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,480 students), of which Prairie Creek is one.

Prairie Point is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Prairie Creek. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Prairie Creek at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 73.9%.

Prairie Creek operates from a countryside location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Prairie Creek has contracted 3%, going from 870 students in 2018 to 846 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 77% to 69% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

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