Truman Elementary School

Truman Elementary School is an elementary-level community of average-sized scale in Davenport, Iowa, part of Davenport Comm School District, instructing 434 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 34% above the typical public school in Iowa, which averages around 325 students.

Truman Elementary School is one of 27 schools operated by Davenport Comm School District, a district that enrolls 12,812 students overall.

On demographics, Truman Elementary School reports that the most-represented group is White (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 25% Black, 15% multiracial, 13% Hispanic, 4% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 79%.

On the resource side, Truman Elementary School logs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 58% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Scott County's rate of about 38%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Truman Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.8%, the actual is 53.1%, a residual of -9.7 points.

In the surrounding community, Scott County reports that median household earnings sit near $78,277, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Scott County's 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,100 students), Truman Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Wood Middle School, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Truman Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 52.4%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Truman Elementary School's enrollment has edged up 18% since 2018, when it stood at 369 (now 434). White enrollment moved from 57% to 43% across the same window.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Truman Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.