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What's the most underrated thing about Prairie Crest Elementary that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
434
Elementary
DISTRICT 374 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COLLEGE COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 190786000389
Prairie Crest Elementary
301 76th Ave SW, Cedar Rapids, IA 52404 · (319) 848-5280 · Linn County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL434 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 35% 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.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
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
13.9:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.5:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
44%
189 students
DISTRICT 40% · STATE 41%
Community
5
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 48 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 75 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 78 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 78 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (75) is 5% smaller than its 4th grade class (79).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within College Comm School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
68.4%
IA avg 73.6% . -0.9pp since 2023
Math
68.0%
IA avg 70.9% . -3.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 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 down about 3 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 68.4% | 68.0% |
| 2023-24 | 69.3% | 71.4% |
% 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
69.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
70.2%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% 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 Prairie Crest Elementary
Prairie Crest Elementary's state test result (69.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prairie Crest Elementary this school | 434 | 43.5% | 69.1% |
| Grant Wood Elementary School Bettendorf | 433 | 47.3% | 68.9% |
| Delaware Elementary Des Moines | 440 | 45.9% | 77.2% |
| Hubbell Elementary Des Moines | 362 | 42.8% | 67.1% |
| Prairie Heights Elementary School Cedar Rapids | 403 | 40.2% | 67.5% |
| Kingsley Elementary School Waterloo | 337 | 49.9% | 75.3% |
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 Prairie Crest Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Linn County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 69.1% | #346 of 564 | #22 of 39 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 68.0% | #412 of 564 ▼ 45 | #26 of 39 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.4% | #352 of 564 ▼ 43 | #23 of 39 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 434 | #174 of 705 | #10 of 45 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #331 of 561 | #23 of 42 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.1% | #155 of 561 | #18 of 42 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 43.5% | #303 of 666 | #21 of 44 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.8% | #310 of 359 | #28 of 30 |
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
434
+36 (+9%) vs 2020
+14% since 1990-91, when it was 382
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 14.2:1
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 | 434 | 31.3 | 13.9:1 | 44% (189) |
| 2023-24 | 419 | 30.3 | 13.8:1 | 41% (171) |
| 2022-23 | 416 | 29.8 | 14.0:1 | 37% (154) |
| 2020-21 | 398 | 28 | 14.2:1 | 29% (116) |
| 2017-18 | 451 | 30 | 15.0:1 | 32% (145) |
| 2015-16 | 446 | 30 | 14.9:1 | 29% (130) |
| 2010-11 | 500 | 27 | 18.5:1 | 25% (123) |
| 2000-01 | 522 | 31 | 16.8:1 | 20% (104) |
| 1990-91 | 382 | 23 | 16.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Prairie Crest Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (451 to 434); teachers up 4% (30 to 31.3).
About Prairie Crest Elementary
Prairie Crest Elementary, a medium-sized elementary school, is located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 434 students in pre-K through 4. Against the 325-student average for elementary schools in Iowa, enrollment here is 34% higher.
College Comm School District enrolls 5,792 students in 10 schools, including Prairie Crest Elementary.
Prairie Crest Elementary is 61% White by enrollment. Smaller groups are 19% Black, 9% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, and 4% Asian. County-wide, 84% of Linn County residents are White. The school's diversity index is 58%, meaning two students picked at random have a 58% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Prairie Crest Elementary operates with 31.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 13.9:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Iowa average 13.7:1. About 44% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits.
The allk12 Grade for Prairie Crest Elementary is C+. Compared with Iowa public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 35% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
In Iowa, Prairie Crest Elementary is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 69.1% actual against a predicted 70.2%.
Census Bureau estimates for Linn County show that the median household income is $77,649, roughly 35% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. There are 83 public schools in Linn County, enrolling about 36,480 students in all.
Prairie View Elementary School is located about 0.1 miles from Prairie Crest Elementary. The five-mile area around Prairie Crest Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. The school's 69.1% average proficiency ranks 5th among 8 nearby schools.
Under the NCES locale system, Prairie Crest Elementary is City: Mid-size.
Federal data show a 9% enrollment rise, from 398 in 2020-21 to 434 in 2024-25.
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Linn County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
230,004
Census ACS
Median income
$77,649
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
83
36,480 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in College Comm School District
- Prairie High SchoolHigh · 1,766 students
- Prairie PointMiddle · 868 students
- Prairie CreekMiddle · 846 students
- Prairie Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 466 students
- Prairie Ridge ElementaryElementary · 438 students
- Prairie View Elementary SchoolElementary · 430 students
Other schools in Cedar Rapids
- Prairie High SchoolHigh · 1,766 students
- John F Kennedy High SchoolHigh · 1,648 students
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,501 students
- George Washington High SchoolHigh · 1,182 students
- Prairie PointMiddle · 868 students
- Prairie CreekMiddle · 846 students
Nearby schools
- Prairie View Elementary School0.1 mi · 430
- Prairie Ridge Elementary0.2 mi · 438
- Prairie High School0.2 mi · 1,766
- Prairie Heights Elementary School0.3 mi · 403
- Prairie Hill Elementary School0.3 mi · 466
- Prairie Early Childhood Center0.4 mi · 74
Frequently asked questions
About Prairie Crest ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Prairie Crest Elementary?
Prairie Crest Elementary enrolls approximately 434 students in grades PK-04.
What age range does Prairie Crest Elementary serve?
Prairie Crest Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 04.
How many teachers does Prairie Crest Elementary have?
Prairie Crest Elementary employs 31 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Prairie Crest Elementary?
Student demographics at Prairie Crest Elementary are roughly 61% White, 6% Hispanic, 19% Black, 4% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees Prairie Crest Elementary?
Prairie Crest Elementary is overseen by College Comm School District in Linn County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.