Weber Elementary

Located at 3850 Rohret Road, in Iowa City, Iowa, Weber Elementary is an average-sized primary school that hosts 456 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Iowa City Comm School District. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so Weber Elementary sits 40% larger than that benchmark.

Iowa City Comm School District comprises 29 schools with combined enrollment of 15,111 students; Weber Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Weber Elementary reports that the largest single group is Black at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 36% White, 6% Asian, 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 8%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Weber Elementary has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Weber Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 55% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Johnson County (around 37%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Weber Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 64.2%; this one delivers 61.6%.

In the broader community, Johnson County reports that median household income runs about $74,935, 55% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Weber Elementary is one.

West Senior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Weber Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Weber Elementary ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 68.4%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Weber Elementary has fell 8%, going from 496 students in 2018 to 456 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 53% to 36% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 today.

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