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Enrollment
456
Elementary
DISTRICT 333 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·IOWA CITY COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 191470000304
Weber Elementary
3850 Rohret Road, Iowa City, IA 52246 · (319) 688-1170 · Johnson County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL456 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 21% of Iowa public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Iowa public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.4:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
55%
253 students
DISTRICT 45% · STATE 41%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 34 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 66 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 67 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 75 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 68 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 71 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (66) is 7% smaller than its 5th grade class (71).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 48% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
59.8%
IA avg 73.6% . -3.3pp since 2023
Math
66.3%
IA avg 70.9% . +1.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.8% | 66.3% |
| 2023-24 | 63.1% | 64.8% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: ISASP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
61.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.2%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Iowa's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Weber Elementary
Weber Elementary's state test result (61.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weber Elementary this school | 456 | 55.5% | 61.6% |
| Ernest Horn Elementary School Iowa City | 453 | 58.5% | 64.8% |
| Lou Henry Elementary School Waterloo | 460 | 65.9% | 62.3% |
| Fillmore Elementary School Davenport | 388 | 63.7% | 51.8% |
| Central Elementary School Coralville | 343 | 48.1% | 62.8% |
| Norman Borlaug Elementary School Coralville | 405 | 43.7% | 69.7% |
Matched among Iowa elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Weber Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Johnson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.6% | #447 of 564 | #22 of 28 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.3% | #436 of 564 ▲ 5 | #18 of 28 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.8% | #454 of 564 ▼ 51 | #22 of 28 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 456 | #141 of 705 | #4 of 30 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.8:1 | #28 of 561 | #3 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.3% | #101 of 561 | #11 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.5% | #164 of 666 | #7 of 30 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.1% | #248 of 359 | #17 of 20 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
456
-87 (-16%) vs 2020
+1% since 2000-01, when it was 453
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 13.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 456 | 42.3 | 10.8:1 | 55% (253) |
| 2023-24 | 542 | 40.8 | 13.3:1 | 56% (302) |
| 2022-23 | 586 | 42.4 | 13.8:1 | 54% (315) |
| 2020-21 | 543 | 39 | 13.9:1 | 44% (237) |
| 2017-18 | 496 | 31.8 | 15.6:1 | 34% (167) |
| 2015-16 | 422 | 28 | 15.1:1 | 32% (136) |
| 2010-11 | 553 | 31 | 17.8:1 | 16% (91) |
| 2000-01 | 453 | 23 | 19.7:1 | 21% (93) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Weber Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (496 to 456); teachers up 33% (31.8 to 42.3).
About Weber Elementary
Weber Elementary is a public mid-sized elementary school in Iowa City, Iowa. It reports enrollment of 456 students in pre-K through 5. That puts enrollment 40% larger than the 325-student average for elementary schools in Iowa.
Iowa City Comm School District (29 schools, 15,111 students) runs Weber Elementary.
No group is above 50% at Weber Elementary; the largest is Black, at 46%. After that, the student body is 36% White, 6% Asian, 5% Hispanic, and 5% multiracial. Among all residents of Johnson County, the Black share is about 8%. The diversity index for Weber Elementary is 64%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its ratio of 10.8:1 is based on 42.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in Iowa average 13.7:1, 2.9 more students per teacher than here. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 55%. The rate at public schools in Johnson County averages 37%, lower than here.
Weber Elementary holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 21% of Iowa public elementary schools.
Test results at Weber Elementary are 2.6 points below what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (61.6% actual, 64.2% predicted).
Census data for Johnson County show median household income comes to about $74,935, about 55% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. There are 43 public schools in the county, enrolling about 20,019, Weber Elementary among them.
Measured in a straight line, West Senior High School is about 1.0 miles from Weber Elementary. The five-mile area around Weber Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. The school's 61.6% average proficiency ranks 8th among 9 nearby schools.
Weber Elementary is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000, a location NCES labels City: Small.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased from 543 to 456, a 16% decline. Federal data show the ratio falling from 13.9:1 to 10.8:1.
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Johnson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
156,639
Census ACS
Median income
$74,935
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
55%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
43
20,019 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Iowa City Comm School District
- Iowa City High SchoolHigh · 1,666 students
- West Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,514 students
- Liberty High SchoolHigh · 1,286 students
- Southeast Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,269 students
- Northwest Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,113 students
- North Central Middle SchoolMiddle · 925 students
Other schools in Iowa City
- Iowa City High SchoolHigh · 1,666 students
- West Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,514 students
- Southeast Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,269 students
- Herbert Hoover Elementary SchoolElementary · 464 students
- Ernest Horn Elementary SchoolElementary · 453 students
- Alexander ElementaryElementary · 436 students
Other Weber Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Weber Elementary. Weber Elementary is the largest of the 2.
- Weber Elementary SchoolARVADA, CO · 312 students
Nearby schools
- West Senior High School1.0 mi · 1,514
- Norman Borlaug Elementary School1.8 mi · 405
- Ernest Horn Elementary School1.8 mi · 453
- Central Elementary School2.5 mi · 343
- Northwest Middle School2.7 mi · 1,113
- Lincoln Elementary School2.8 mi · 217
Frequently asked questions
About Weber ElementaryHow many students attend Weber Elementary?
Weber Elementary enrolls approximately 456 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Weber Elementary serve?
Weber Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Weber Elementary?
Approximately 10.8:1 students per teacher at Weber Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Weber Elementary?
Student demographics at Weber Elementary are roughly 36% White, 5% Hispanic, 46% Black, 6% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Weber Elementary?
Weber Elementary is overseen by Iowa City Comm School District in Johnson County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.