Iowa school board elections, 2014
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There were no Iowa school districts among America's largest school districts by enrollment holding elections in 2014. School board elections in Iowa are held on the second Tuesday of September in odd-numbered years.[1]
State profile
| Demographic data for Iowa | ||
|---|---|---|
| Iowa | U.S. | |
| Total population: | 3,121,997 | 316,515,021 |
| Land area (sq mi): | 55,857 | 3,531,905 |
| Race and ethnicity** | ||
| White: | 91.2% | 73.6% |
| Black/African American: | 3.2% | 12.6% |
| Asian: | 2% | 5.1% |
| Native American: | 0.3% | 0.8% |
| Pacific Islander: | 0.1% | 0.2% |
| Two or more: | 2% | 3% |
| Hispanic/Latino: | 5.4% | 17.1% |
| Education | ||
| High school graduation rate: | 91.5% | 86.7% |
| College graduation rate: | 26.7% | 29.8% |
| Income | ||
| Median household income: | $53,183 | $53,889 |
| Persons below poverty level: | 13.8% | 11.3% |
| Source: U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2010-2015) Click here for more information on the 2020 census and here for more on its impact on the redistricting process in Iowa. **Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here. | ||
Presidential voting pattern
- See also: Presidential voting trends in Iowa
Iowa voted for the Republican candidate in four out of the seven presidential elections between 2000 and 2024.
Pivot Counties (2016)
Ballotpedia identified 206 counties that voted for Donald Trump (R) in 2016 after voting for Barack Obama (D) in 2008 and 2012. Collectively, Trump won these Pivot Counties by more than 580,000 votes. Of these 206 counties, 31 are located in Iowa, accounting for 15.04 percent of the total pivot counties.[2]
Pivot Counties (2020)
In 2020, Ballotpedia re-examined the 206 Pivot Counties to view their voting patterns following that year's presidential election. Ballotpedia defined those won by Trump won as Retained Pivot Counties and those won by Joe Biden (D) as Boomerang Pivot Counties. Nationwide, there were 181 Retained Pivot Counties and 25 Boomerang Pivot Counties. Iowa had 31 Retained Pivot Counties, 17.13 percent of all Retained Pivot Counties.
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Academic performance
- See also: Public education in Iowa
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NAEP scores
- See also: NAEP scores by state for a full comparison of all states.
The National Center for Education Statistics provides state-by-state data on student achievement levels in mathematics and reading in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Compared to three neighboring states (Minnesota, Missouri, and Illinois), Iowa students did slightly better than Missouri and Illinois, but not as well as Minnesota during the 2012-2013 school year. According to the Iowa "Annual Condition of Education Report for 2013," National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results remain unchanged. Iowa fourth and eighth grade NAEP results in mathematics and reading were also similar from the prior years, with no significant gains in either content area or grade level. See the table and bar graph below and the chart for a full comparison.
| Percent of students scoring at or above proficient, 2012-2013 | ||||
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| Math - Grade 4 | Math - Grade 8 | Reading - Grade 4 | Reading - Grade 8 | |
| Iowa | 48% | 36% | 38% | 37% |
| Illinois | 39% | 36% | 34% | 36% |
| Minnesota | 59% | 47% | 41% | 41% |
| Missouri | 39% | 33% | 35% | 36% |
| U.S. average | 41% | 34% | 34% | 34% |
| Source: United States Department of Education, ED Data Express, "State Tables," accessed May 13, 2014 | ||||
| NAEP Assessment Data for all students 2012-2013 |
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Graduation, ACT and SAT scores
The following table shows the graduation rates, average composite ACT and SAT scores, and rankings for Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and Missouri for 2012 and 2013. In 2013, the number of Iowa SAT I takers was about 1,132 (approximately 3 percent) of the high school graduates. Iowa’s averages continued to be around 100 standard score points higher than the Nation’s in both Critical Reading and Mathematics. According to the Iowa Department of Education, the percentage of Iowa students taking the ACT was 66 percent for the class of 2013, compared to the national percentage of 54 percent in 2013. Iowa students continued to score well on the ACT with an average composite score (22.1).[3]
| Comparison Table for graduation rates and scoring** | |||||||
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| State | Graduation Rate 2012* | Average ACT Composite 2012 | Average SAT Composite 2013 | ||||
| Percent | Quintile ranking** | Score | Participation rate | Score | Participation rate | ||
| Iowa | 89% | First | 22.1 | 63 | 1773 | 3% | |
| Illinois | 82% | Third | 20.9 | 100 | 1807 | 5% | |
| Minnesota | 78% | 31 | 22.8 | 10 | 1780 | 4% | |
| Missouri | 86% | 9 | 21.6 | 25 | 1173 | 5% | |
| United States | 80% | 21.1 | 1498 | ||||
| *Regulatory Adjusted Cohort Rate (except for Idaho, Kentucky, Oklahoma, which did not report “Regulatory Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate,” but instead used their own method of calculation). **Graduation rates for states in the first quintile ranked in the top 20 percent nationally. Similarly, graduation rates for states in the fifth quintile ranked in the bottom 20 percent nationally. Source: United States Department of Education, ED Data Express | |||||||
Dropout rate
- See also: Public high school dropout rates by state for a full comparison of dropout rates by group in all states
The high school event dropout rate indicates the proportion of students who were enrolled at some time during the school year and were expected to be enrolled in grades 9–12 in the following school year but were not enrolled by October 1 of the following school year. Students who have graduated, transferred to another school, died, moved to another country, or who are out of school due to illness are not considered dropouts. The average public high school event dropout rate for the United States remained constant at 3.3 percent for both school year 2010–11 and school year 2011–12. The event dropout rate for Iowa was higher than the national average at 3.4 percent in the 2010-2011 school year, and 3.2 percent in the 2011-2012 school year.[4]
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ Iowa Secretary of State, "Election Administrator's Handbook," March 2013
- ↑ The raw data for this study was provided by Dave Leip of Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections.
- ↑ Iowa Department of Education,"2013 Condition of Education Reports," accessed May 12, 2014
- ↑ United States Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, "Common Core of Data (CCD), State Dropout and Graduation Rate Data File, School Year 2010-11, Provision Version 1a and School Year 2011-12, Preliminary Version 1a," accessed May 13, 2014
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