Prairie Crossing

Prairie Crossing is a public school serving multiple grade levels run by College Comm School District in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It reports enrollment of 67 students in kindergarten through 12. That puts enrollment 72% below the 239-student average for combined schools in Iowa.

Prairie Crossing is among 10 schools run by College Comm School District, which serves 5,792 students.

The student body at Prairie Crossing is 58% White. The rest of enrollment is 21% Black, 12% multiracial, and 9% Hispanic. Among all residents of Linn County, the White share is about 84%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 60%.

Classroom staffing at Prairie Crossing totals 15.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 4.3:1. Statewide, combined schools in Iowa average 19.1:1. Federal data show 70% of students (47) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Linn County, the average is 40%.

In Linn County, median household income comes to about $77,649, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 35% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 6%. The county's public schools total 83, with about 36,480 students.

Measured in a straight line, Prairie Heights Elementary School is about 1.1 miles from Prairie Crossing. The five-mile area around Prairie Crossing holds at least 8 other public schools.

Locale: City: Mid-size. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

By 2024-25, enrollment had risen to 67, from 50 in 2020-21.

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