Riverdale Heights Elem School

Riverdale Heights Elem School is one of the expansive elementary campuss in Bettendorf, Iowa, overseen by Pleasant Valley Comm School District, with 628 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so Riverdale Heights Elem School sits 93% above that benchmark.

Across the 8 schools in Pleasant Valley Comm School District (5,696 students total), Riverdale Heights Elem School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Riverdale Heights Elem School lists that 60% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school shows 13% Asian, 11% Hispanic, 8% Black, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 20% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Scott County's rate of about 38%.

With demographic context factored in, Riverdale Heights Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 82.0%, the actual is 87.7%, a residual of +5.7 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Scott County indicate median household earnings sit near $78,277, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Scott County runs 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,100 students), of which Riverdale Heights Elem School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Pleasant Valley High School, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Riverdale Heights Elem School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 74.2%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Riverdale Heights Elem School has held roughly steady, going from 636 students in 2018 to 628 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share ticked down from 21% to 13%. Class-load math has widened: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

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