Prescott Elementary School

Prescott Elementary School, a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in Dubuque, Iowa, one of the schools within Dubuque Comm School District, hosts 352 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Prescott Elementary School is one of 19 schools operated by Dubuque Comm School District, a district that hosts 9,843 students overall.

Demographically, Prescott Elementary School shows that the most-represented group is Black (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 26% White, 14% multiracial, 8% Pacific Islander, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Dubuque County as a whole is about 3% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Prescott Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 82% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Dubuque County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Prescott Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 51.2%; this one comes in at 31.8%, -19.3 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, Dubuque County reports that median household earnings sit near $77,630, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Prescott Elementary School is one of 26 public schools in Dubuque County (combined enrollment of about 13,164 students).

The closest other public school is Audubon Elementary School, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Prescott Elementary School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 58.2%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Prescott Elementary School's enrollment has rose 19% since 2018, when it stood at 295 (now 352). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 40% to 26%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 9.6:1 in 2018 to 8.3:1 in 2025.

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