SW Iowa Times

There were 14,703 students enrolled in Pottawattamie County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 1% less than the previous year, according to the Iowa Department of Education.

Of all the students welcomed at the time, 51.6% identified as male and 48.4% as female.

Data also showed that white students made up 79.8% of the student body, the largest percentage in Pottawattamie County schools, followed by Hispanic students with 12.6%, 3.7% multiracial, 2.5% Black, 0.8% Asian, 0.4% Native American and 0.2% Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.

Abraham Lincoln High School had the highest enrollment among Pottawattamie County’s 33 schools in the 2023-24 school year, welcoming 1,358 students.

Public school enrollment in Iowa remained relatively stable in the 2024-25 school year, with 480,665 students, a slight decrease of 0.63% compared to the previous year. Meanwhile, enrollment in accredited nonpublic schools grew by nearly 10%, reaching 39,356 students, up from 36,195. This increase was partially driven by the Students First Education Savings (ESA) program, with 27,866 students utilizing ESAs at nonpublic schools.

Rank	School name	School district	Total enrollment in 2022-23	Total enrollment in 2023-24	% change
1	Abraham Lincoln High School	Council Bluffs Comm	1,399	1,358	-2.9%
2	Thomas Jefferson High School	Council Bluffs Comm	1,243	1,206	-3%
3	Lewis Central Senior High School	Lewis Central Comm	927	1,002	8.1%
4	Gerald W. Kirn Middle School	Council Bluffs Comm	956	914	-4.4%
5	Titan Hill Intermediate School	Lewis Central Comm	863	910	5.4%
6	Woodrow Wilson Middle School	Council Bluffs Comm	900	866	-3.8%
7	Lewis Central Middle School	Lewis Central Comm	742	730	-1.6%
8	E. a Kreft Primary School	Lewis Central Comm	414	427	3.1%
9	College View Elementary	Council Bluffs Comm	399	420	5.3%
10	Franklin Elementary School	Council Bluffs Comm	453	413	-8.8%
11	Longfellow Elementary School	Council Bluffs Comm	423	412	-2.6%
12	Roosevelt Elementary School	Council Bluffs Comm	401	403	0.5%
13	Bloomer Elementary School	Council Bluffs Comm	367	392	6.8%
14	Hoover Elementary School	Council Bluffs Comm	398	388	-2.5%
15	Underwood Elementary School	Underwood Comm	356	367	3.1%
16	Edison Elementary School	Council Bluffs Comm	376	347	-7.7%
16	Riverside Community High School	Riverside Comm	359	347	-3.3%
18	Treynor Elementary School	Treynor Comm	330	334	1.2%
19	Tri-Center Elementary School	Tri-Center Comm	310	311	0.3%
20	Carter Lake Elementary School	Council Bluffs Comm	329	308	-6.4%
21	Rue Elementary School	Council Bluffs Comm	317	304	-4.1%
22	AHSTW Intermediate School	AHSTW Comm	262	268	2.3%
23	Lewis & Clark Elementary School	Council Bluffs Comm	231	263	13.9%
24	Treynor High School	Treynor Comm	252	243	-3.6%
25	AHSTW Primary School	AHSTW Comm	252	241	-4.4%
25	Underwood High School	Underwood Comm	243	241	-0.8%
27	Tri-Center High School	Tri-Center Comm	210	226	7.6%
28	Treynor Middle School	Treynor Comm	213	221	3.8%
29	AHSTW High School	AHSTW Comm	218	210	-3.7%
30	Underwood Middle School	Underwood Comm	194	206	6.2%
31	Riverside Elementary School	Riverside Comm	136	149	9.6%
32	Tri-Center Middle School	Tri-Center Comm	162	140	-13.6%
33	Riverside Community Carson Elementary School	Riverside Comm	146	136	-6.8%