Enrollment
315
Elementary
DISTRICT 333 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·IOWA CITY COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 191470000436
Wickham Elementary
601 Oakdale Blvd, Coralville, IA 52241 · (319) 688-1175 · Johnson County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL315 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 98% of Iowa public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
15.3:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.4:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
20%
62 students
DISTRICT 45% · STATE 41%
Community
0
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 | 35 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 47 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 46 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 39 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 50 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 40 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (47) is 18% larger than its 5th grade class (40).
Student demographics
61%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
94.2%
IA avg 73.6% . +1.2pp since 2023
Math
94.2%
IA avg 70.9% . +1.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 94 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 94 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 94.2% | 94.2% |
| 2023-24 | 93.0% | 92.4% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: ISASP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
92.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
82.1%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 92% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 82% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 10 points, placing it in Iowa's top 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 Wickham Elementary
Wickham Elementary's state test result (92.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wickham Elementary this school | 315 | 19.7% | 92.1% |
| Woodland Hills Elementary School West Des Moines | 578 | 21.6% | 83.3% |
| Fellows Elementary School Ames | 489 | 28.8% | 83.5% |
| Timber Ridge Elementary Johnston | 667 | 27.3% | 73.9% |
| Brookview Elementary School West Des Moines | 592 | 22.0% | 82.0% |
| Hopewell Elementary Bettendorf | 658 | 4.0% | 96.2% |
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 Wickham Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Johnson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 92.1% | #4 of 564 | #1 of 28 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 94.2% | #10 of 564 ▲ 4 | #1 of 28 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 94.2% | #4 of 564 ▼ 1 | #1 of 28 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 315 | #344 of 705 | #16 of 30 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #473 of 561 | #21 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.8% | #132 of 561 | #13 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 19.7% | #598 of 666 | #25 of 30 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -35.1% | #17 of 359 | #5 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
315
-45 (-12%) vs 2020
-29% since 2000-01, when it was 443
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 15.0:1
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 | 315 | 20.6 | 15.3:1 | 20% (62) |
| 2023-24 | 371 | 22.9 | 16.2:1 | 16% (59) |
| 2022-23 | 383 | 22.9 | 16.7:1 | 13% (49) |
| 2020-21 | 360 | 24 | 15.0:1 | 8% (27) |
| 2017-18 | 485 | 34.3 | 14.2:1 | 12% (59) |
| 2015-16 | 522 | 32 | 16.3:1 | 15% (80) |
| 2010-11 | 488 | 28 | 17.4:1 | 6% (28) |
| 2000-01 | 443 | 20 | 22.1:1 | 7% (31) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wickham Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 35% (485 to 315); teachers down 40% (34.3 to 20.6).
About Wickham Elementary
A medium-sized elementary school in Coralville, Iowa, Wickham Elementary is part of Iowa City Comm School District. The school's enrollment of 315 students covers pre-K through 5.
Iowa City Comm School District is the local district for Wickham Elementary. It runs 29 schools with 15,111 students.
White students account for 58% of enrollment at Wickham Elementary. Enrollment also includes 20% Asian, 11% Black, 6% multiracial, and 5% Hispanic. The school's White share is 19 points below the 76% share among Johnson County residents. The chance that two students picked at random at Wickham Elementary belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 61%.
Teachers at the school number 20.6 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 15.3:1. The 13.7:1 average for elementary schools in Iowa is lower than this school's figure. Roughly 20% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Johnson County average 37%.
Measured against Iowa public elementary schools, Wickham Elementary receives an A+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Compared with Iowa schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Wickham Elementary does better than predicted by 10.0 points. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 92.1%; the prediction is 82.1%.
Census estimates describe Johnson County this way: median household income is about $74,935, 55% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. The public schools of Johnson County number 43 and enroll about 20,019.
The closest other public school is Kirkwood Elementary School, about 1.5 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Wickham Elementary ranks 1st of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 92.1% against a local average of 68.9%.
Wickham Elementary is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000, a location NCES labels Suburb: Mid-size.
Enrollment was 360 in 2020-21 and 315 in 2024-25, a decrease of 45 students.
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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 Coralville
- Northwest Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,113 students
- East Ridge ElementaryElementary · 442 students
- Norman Borlaug Elementary SchoolElementary · 405 students
- Central Elementary SchoolElementary · 343 students
- Kirkwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 270 students
Nearby schools
- Kirkwood Elementary School1.5 mi · 270
- North Central Middle School1.6 mi · 925
- Northwest Middle School1.7 mi · 1,113
- James Van Allen Elementary School1.8 mi · 376
- Liberty High School2.0 mi · 1,286
- Central Elementary School2.1 mi · 343
Frequently asked questions
About Wickham ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Wickham Elementary?
Wickham Elementary enrolls approximately 315 students in grades PK-05.
Is Wickham Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Wickham Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Wickham Elementary?
Approximately 15.3:1 students per teacher at Wickham Elementary.
How diverse is Wickham Elementary?
Wickham Elementary reports a student body of 58% White, 5% Hispanic, 11% Black, 20% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Wickham Elementary?
Wickham Elementary is overseen by Iowa City Comm School District in Johnson County.
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