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Public school / Primary

Paul Norton Elementary School

Bettendorf, Iowa

NCES ID
190486000146
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Paul Norton Elementary School is a public primary school in Bettendorf, Iowa, run by Bettendorf Comm School District. It enrols 426 students — the 47227th largest of 1,337 public schools in Iowa.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

426students

47227th nationally, tied with 158

Teachers

26.0FTE

50791st nationally, tied with 2,332

Students per teacher

16.4students

60006th nationally, tied with 751

Free or reduced-price lunch

14.3%percent

80782nd nationally, tied with 69

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Bettendorf Comm School District

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Bettendorf High School1,482 students
  2. 2Bettendorf Middle School987 students
  3. 3Grant Wood Elementary School444 students
  4. 4Paul Norton Elementary School426 students
  5. 5Mark Twain Elementary School416 students
  6. 6Herbert Hoover Elementary School405 students
  7. 7Neil Armstrong Elementary School272 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Iowa median across 1,337 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+19.0%
  • Teachers+13.0%
  • Students per teacher+15.5%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−63.8%
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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.