The top reported proficiency rate is 79% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Crescent Elementary School
Crescent Elementary School is closed. The formal record lists its status as closed, and it is no longer operating as a public school within the Council Bluffs Community School District. Any parent or resident reading this in the present day is looking at a school that served its community and then ceased operations. That is the essential fact that shapes everything else.
In its final year with reported testing data, the 2022-23 school year, Crescent Elementary was a regular public school serving a middle-grade band. The state assessment results from that year show that in both math and English language arts, roughly four out of every five students scored at a proficient level on the Iowa Statewide Assessment of Student Progress. That represents a strong performance on the state’s standards for that year. The participation rate in those assessments was high, meaning the results reflect nearly all enrolled students. Science results were suppressed from public reporting, which often happens when the tested group is too small to report reliably without risking student identification. The school’s testing cohort was small, consistent with a school serving a limited grade band in a small town.
Because the school is closed, other data that would typically appear for an active school—enrollment counts, demographic breakdowns, teacher qualifications, discipline rates, graduation rates, program offerings—are absent. There is no graduation rate to report because the school did not serve high school grades in its final years. There is no current Title I status, no free-and-reduced-price lunch data, no special education or English learner counts. These gaps are explained by the school’s closure; the data simply does not exist for a school that no longer exists.
The school was located in Crescent, Iowa, a small, primarily residential community in Pottawattamie County at the base of the Loess Hills, just northeast of Omaha and Council Bluffs. Crescent is a quiet bedroom community with a very high homeownership rate and median household income well above the Iowa average. Commercial activity is minimal; the town’s main spine is the Old Lincoln Highway, with a post office and a community hall as its key public buildings. Most residents commute to jobs in the Omaha–Council Bluffs metro area, particularly in manufacturing, transportation and warehousing, and health care. The town itself has very few local employers. Population growth has been very slow, and the housing stock consists almost entirely of single-family homes. There is no public transit and no public library within Crescent. The surrounding landscape is defined by fertile farmland and the scenic Loess Hills, with Hitchcock Nature Center and Mount Crescent ski area providing nearby recreation.
Crescent Elementary was part of the Council Bluffs Community School District, which serves a larger urban and suburban area. The district brief showed no major parent-relevant changes in recent years that could be documented from public sources.
For anyone reading this to understand what kinds of academic pathways, peer environments, or student supports the school offered, those questions cannot be answered from the available data. The school is closed. Its testing record suggests that, when it was open, students in its tested grades performed well on state assessments. But as a closed school, it no longer has a current profile. A parent looking at this today would be seeing a historical snapshot of a school that has since ended its operations. The reason for its closure is not stated in the data provided. Families living in Crescent now attend other schools in the Council Bluffs district, and any current academic or program information would need to come from those active schools. This narrative can only reflect what the evidence shows: a small, high-performing middle-grade school that has closed.
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