Rue Elementary School

Rue Elementary School, a moderately sized K-5 school in Council Bluffs, Iowa, operated by Council Bluffs Comm School District, enrolls 385 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Council Bluffs Comm School District runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 8,299 students. Rue Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Rue Elementary School records that White students make up the majority at 66%. Beyond that, the school shows 21% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Pottawattamie County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Rue Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Rue Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 70.4%; actual is 54.8%, a gap of -15.6 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Pottawattamie County indicate the typical household earns roughly $73,602 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Rue Elementary School is one of 35 public schools in Pottawattamie County (combined enrollment of about 15,270 students).

Nearest neighbor: Franklin Elementary School, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Rue Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 56.3%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rue Elementary School has expanded 9%, going from 352 students in 2018 to 385 in 2025.

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