Prairie View Elementary School

Prairie View Elementary School is a primary school of medium-sized scale in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, one of the schools within College Comm School District, hosting 430 students in grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 32% above the state mean of about 325.

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

On the student-mix side, Prairie View Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. Other groups include 17% Black, 10% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Linn County as a whole is about 84% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Prairie View Elementary School logs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. The state averages about 13.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 36% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Prairie View Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Iowa public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 74.2%; Prairie View Elementary School posts 84.8%, +10.7 points above that line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Linn County indicate the typical household earns roughly $77,649 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Linn County's 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,480 students), Prairie View Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Prairie Crest Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Prairie View Elementary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 71.4%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 6%: 458 students in 2018 compared to 430 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 71% to 63% over that span.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.