Robert Lucas Elementary School

Robert Lucas Elementary School operates as a low-enrollment K-5 school in Iowa City, Iowa, part of Iowa City Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 245 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so Robert Lucas Elementary School sits 25% smaller than that benchmark.

Robert Lucas Elementary School is one of 29 schools operated by Iowa City Comm School District, a district that educates 15,111 students overall.

Demographically, Robert Lucas Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White at 43%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 33% Black, 11% Hispanic, 11% multiracial. By comparison, Johnson County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 49% of students at Robert Lucas Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Johnson County's rate of about 37%.

After controlling for student poverty, Robert Lucas Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.2%, the actual is 59.0%, a residual of -8.3 points.

In the area at large, census data for Johnson County shows median household earnings sit near $74,935, about 55% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Johnson County runs 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,019 students), of which Robert Lucas Elementary School is one.

Southeast Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Robert Lucas Elementary School at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 62.9%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Robert Lucas Elementary School's enrollment has fell 46% since 2018, when it stood at 455 (now 245). Hispanic enrollment moved from 22% to 11% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 today.

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