SW Iowa Times

There were 11,733 white students enrolled in Pottawattamie County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 1.7% less than the previous year, according to the Iowa Department of Education.

Data showed that Pottawattamie County welcomed 14,703 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, white students comprised 79.8% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 33 schools in the county, Abraham Lincoln High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 1,045 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.

School Name	School District	% of white Students	white Students Count	Total School Enrollment
Abraham Lincoln High School	Council Bluffs Comm	77%	1,045	1,358
Thomas Jefferson High School	Council Bluffs Comm	69.7%	841	1,206
Lewis Central Senior High School	Lewis Central Comm	80.3%	805	1,002
Titan Hill Intermediate School	Lewis Central Comm	81.8%	744	910
Gerald W. Kirn Middle School	Council Bluffs Comm	77.5%	708	914
Woodrow Wilson Middle School	Council Bluffs Comm	68.2%	591	866
Lewis Central Middle School	Lewis Central Comm	78.4%	572	730
College View Elementary	Council Bluffs Comm	85.5%	359	420
Underwood Elementary School	Underwood Comm	95.1%	349	367
E. a Kreft Primary School	Lewis Central Comm	77%	329	427
Hoover Elementary School	Council Bluffs Comm	82.2%	319	388
Treynor Elementary School	Treynor Comm	93.4%	312	334
Riverside Community High School	Riverside Comm	87.9%	305	347
Tri-Center Elementary School	Tri-Center Comm	95.5%	297	311
Roosevelt Elementary School	Council Bluffs Comm	73.2%	295	403
Bloomer Elementary School	Council Bluffs Comm	74.7%	293	392
Franklin Elementary School	Council Bluffs Comm	68.8%	284	413
Longfellow Elementary School	Council Bluffs Comm	66.5%	274	412
Edison Elementary School	Council Bluffs Comm	72%	250	347
AHSTW Intermediate School	AHSTW Comm	89.6%	240	268
Carter Lake Elementary School	Council Bluffs Comm	76.9%	237	308
Treynor High School	Treynor Comm	97.5%	237	243
Lewis & Clark Elementary School	Council Bluffs Comm	87.8%	231	263
AHSTW Primary School	AHSTW Comm	91.7%	221	241
Underwood High School	Underwood Comm	91.7%	221	241
Rue Elementary School	Council Bluffs Comm	70.7%	215	304
Tri-Center High School	Tri-Center Comm	91.6%	207	226
Treynor Middle School	Treynor Comm	93.2%	206	221
AHSTW High School	AHSTW Comm	92.9%	195	210
Underwood Middle School	Underwood Comm	92.7%	191	206
Tri-Center Middle School	Tri-Center Comm	90.7%	127	140
Riverside Elementary School	Riverside Comm	79.9%	119	149
Riverside Community Carson Elementary School	Riverside Comm	83.8%	114	136