Prairie Ridge Elementary

Prairie Ridge Elementary, a reasonably sized K-5 school in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, part of College Comm School District, teaches 438 students, covering grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 35% larger than the state mean of about 325.

College Comm School District runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 5,792 students. Prairie Ridge Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Prairie Ridge Elementary shows that 70% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school records 11% Black, 9% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 84% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 35% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Prairie Ridge Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 74.6%, the actual is 81.4%, a residual of +6.8 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Linn County) shows that median household earnings sit near $77,649, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Prairie Ridge Elementary is one of 83 public schools in Linn County (combined enrollment of about 36,480 students).

Prairie View Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Prairie Ridge Elementary comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 71.9%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Prairie Ridge Elementary has shrank 4%, going from 456 students in 2018 to 438 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 80% to 70%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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