Regular local school district · Pottawattamie County
Council Bluffs Comm School District, IA: schools, enrollment and spending
Council Bluffs Comm School District runs 15 public schools with 8,347 students in grades PK to 12. Its ratio of 14.8 students per teacher is about the same as the Iowa figure of 14.4.
At a glance
- Schools
- 15
- Students
- 8,347
- Teachers (FTE)
- 565
- Students per teacher
- 14.8
- IA: 14.4 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 300 W Broadway Ste 1600, Council Bluffs, IA 51503
- Phone
- (712)328-6446
- County
- Pottawattamie County
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- Grades offered
- PK to 12
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 1908220
- State district ID
- IA-781476 000
- Total staff (FTE)
- 1,246
- School counselors (FTE)
- 28.0About 298 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 42.0
Students per teacher compared
This district14.8
Iowa14.4
United States15.3
2020 finance data
From the F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2020, in nominal dollars. Enrollment used for per-pupil figures is the finance survey count (8,910), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $150.8 million
- Federal revenue
- $17.4 million
- State revenue
- $86.9 million
- Local revenue
- $46.5 million
- Total spending
- $152.0 million
- Spending per pupil
- $17,055
- Salaries
- $71.1 million46.8% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $86.7 million
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 11.5%
- State: 57.6%
- Local: 30.9%
Iowa overall
- Federal: 10.5%
- State: 48.7%
- Local: 40.8%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$17,055
Iowa$15,206
United States$16,826
Schools in Council Bluffs Comm School District
By level: 2 high, 2 middle, 10 elementary, 1 prekindergarten. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Abraham Lincoln High SchoolCEP school | High | 9 to 12 | 1,333 | 15.5 |
| Anne E. Nelson Early Learning CenterCEP school | Prekindergarten | PK | 119 | 11.9 |
| Bloomer Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 396 | 13.2 |
| Carter Lake Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 301 | 13.1 |
| College View ElementaryCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 488 | 15.7 |
| Edison Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 384 | 14.2 |
| Franklin Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 421 | 13.6 |
| Gerald W Kirn Middle SchoolCEP school | Middle | 6 to 8 | 913 | 15.7 |
| Hoover Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 401 | 14.3 |
| Lewis & Clark Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 271 | 15.9 |
| Longfellow Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 431 | 13.9 |
| Roosevelt Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 455 | 13.4 |
| Rue Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 385 | 15.4 |
| Thomas Jefferson High SchoolCEP school | High | 9 to 12 | 1,146 | 17.6 |
| Woodrow Wilson Middle SchoolCEP school | Middle | 6 to 8 | 855 | 14.0 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Pottawattamie County
- Lewis Central Comm School District 3,143 students
- Underwood Comm School District 855 students
- Treynor Comm School District 817 students
- AHSTW Comm School District 755 students
- Tri-Center Comm School District 724 students
- Riverside Comm School District 677 students
- AEA 13 Green Hills AEA
- Iowa School for the Deaf
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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.