Enrollment
352
Elementary
DISTRICT 349 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DUBUQUE COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 190948001456
Prescott Elementary School
1151 White St, Dubuque, IA 52001 · (563) 552-4200 · Dubuque County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL352 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 0% of Iowa public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
8.3:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
82%
287 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 41%
Community
0
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 | 27 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 56 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 52 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 41 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 62 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 57 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 57 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (56) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (57).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · 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
Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
40.6%
IA avg 73.6% . +6.4pp since 2023
Math
32.3%
IA avg 70.9% . +7.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.6% | 32.3% |
| 2023-24 | 34.2% | 24.6% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: ISASP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of IA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
31.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.2%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-19.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 51% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Prescott Elementary School
Prescott Elementary School's state test result (31.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prescott Elementary School this school | 352 | 81.5% | 31.8% |
| Lincoln Elementary School Waterloo | 463 | 81.0% | 51.8% |
| Madison Elementary School Davenport | 318 | 80.5% | 27.8% |
| Cedar River Academy at Taylor Cedar Rapids | 355 | 76.1% | 37.0% |
| Johnson STEAM Academy School Cedar Rapids | 324 | 70.4% | 40.0% |
| Irving Elementary School Waterloo | 353 | 89.2% | 61.1% |
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 Prescott Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Dubuque County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.8% | #561 of 564 | #16 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.3% | #561 of 564 ▲ 2 | #16 of 16 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.6% | #551 of 564 ▲ 7 | #16 of 16 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 352 | #288 of 705 | #8 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.3:1 | #2 of 561 | #1 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.3% | #47 of 561 | #3 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 81.5% | #37 of 666 | #1 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +19.3% | #43 of 168 | #4 of 9 |
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
352
+67 (+24%) vs 2020
+18% since 2010-11, when it was 298
Student : Teacher
8.3:1
was 7.9:1
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 | 352 | 42.2 | 8.3:1 | 82% (287) |
| 2023-24 | 383 | 43 | 8.9:1 | 70% (270) |
| 2022-23 | 370 | 44.8 | 8.3:1 | 76% (283) |
| 2020-21 | 285 | 36 | 7.9:1 | 79% (225) |
| 2017-18 | 295 | 30.6 | 9.6:1 | 58% (172) |
| 2015-16 | 274 | 31 | 8.8:1 | 79% (217) |
| 2010-11 | 298 | 30 | 9.9:1 | 85% (252) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Prescott Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 19% (295 to 352); teachers up 38% (30.6 to 42.2).
About Prescott Elementary School
Prescott Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in Iowa, located in Dubuque. School enrollment was 352 students in 2024-25, in pre-K through 5.
Dubuque Comm School District, which runs Prescott Elementary School, has 19 schools and 9,843 students.
Prescott Elementary School's enrollment has no majority group, and Black students are the largest at 45%. After that, the student body is 26% White, 14% multiracial, 8% Pacific Islander, and 5% Hispanic. Among all residents of Dubuque County, the Black share is about 3%. By the diversity index, Prescott Elementary School comes in at 70%.
At Prescott Elementary School, 42.2 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 8.3:1. That ratio is under the 13.7:1 average for elementary schools in Iowa. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 82% of enrollment. The gap from the 39% average for public schools in Dubuque County is 43 points.
allk12 grades Prescott Elementary School an F. The grade compares the school only with Iowa public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
On allk12's BeatsExpectations measure, Prescott Elementary School is among the bottom 10% of schools in Iowa. Predicted: 51.2%. Actual: 31.8%.
Prescott Elementary School is located in Dubuque County, where median household income is about $77,630, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 26 public schools in Dubuque County, with a combined enrollment of about 13,164.
Of nearby public schools, Audubon Elementary School is the closest, at about 0.8 miles. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, Prescott Elementary School ranks 9th on average proficiency.
Prescott Elementary School is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000, a location NCES labels City: Small.
Prescott Elementary School had 285 students in 2020-21 and 352 in 2024-25, a 24% rise.
Threads on this page can be about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Dubuque County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
99,030
Census ACS
Median income
$77,630
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
26
13,164 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Dubuque Comm School District
- Hempstead High SchoolHigh · 1,499 students
- Dubuque Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,490 students
- Eleanor Roosevelt Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,081 students
- George Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 584 students
- Eisenhower Elementary SchoolElementary · 568 students
- Carver Elementary SchoolElementary · 499 students
Other schools in Dubuque
- Hempstead High SchoolHigh · 1,499 students
- Dubuque Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,490 students
- Eleanor Roosevelt Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,081 students
- George Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 584 students
- Eisenhower Elementary SchoolElementary · 568 students
- Carver Elementary SchoolElementary · 499 students
Other Prescott Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 7 states are named Prescott Elementary. Prescott Elementary School is the 4th largest of the 7.
- PRESCOTT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLLINCOLN, NE · 485 students
- Prescott Elementary SchoolChicago, IL · 463 students
- PRESCOTT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPRESCOTT, AR · 363 students
- Prescott Elementary SchoolPortland, OR · 268 students
- Prescott Elementary SchoolPRESCOTT, WA · 139 students
Nearby schools
- Audubon Elementary School0.8 mi · 247
- Lincoln Elementary School0.9 mi · 257
- Thomas Jefferson Middle School1.2 mi · 402
- Marshall Elementary School1.3 mi · 323
- George Washington Middle School1.4 mi · 584
- Bryant Elementary School1.4 mi · 299
Frequently asked questions
About Prescott Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Prescott Elementary School?
Prescott Elementary School enrolls approximately 352 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Prescott Elementary School serve?
Prescott Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Prescott Elementary School?
Approximately 8.3:1 students per teacher at Prescott Elementary School.
How diverse is Prescott Elementary School?
Prescott Elementary School reports a student body of 26% White, 5% Hispanic, 45% Black, 2% Asian, 14% Two or more.
What district is Prescott Elementary School in?
Prescott Elementary School is part of Dubuque Comm School District.
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