Cedar Rapids Today

There were 3,333 white students enrolled in Benton County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 2.8% less than the previous year, according to the Iowa Department of Education.

Data showed that Benton County welcomed 3,656 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, white students comprised 91.2% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 12 schools in the county, Benton Community Senior High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 446 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
Benton Community Senior High School	Benton Comm	91%	446	490
Tilford Elementary School	Vinton-Shellsburg Comm	92.1%	441	479
Vinton-Shellsburg High School	Vinton-Shellsburg Comm	91.9%	373	406
Norway Elementary School	Benton Comm	90.6%	309	341
Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School	Vinton-Shellsburg Comm	91.7%	309	337
Atkins Elementary School	Benton Comm	90.7%	274	302
Center Point-Urbana Intermediate School	Center Point-Urbana Comm	89.5%	246	275
Longfellow Elementary School	Belle Plaine Comm	87.6%	227	259
Shellsburg Elementary School	Vinton-Shellsburg Comm	93.3%	210	225
Benton Community Middle School	Benton Comm	92.5%	196	212
Belle Plaine Junior-Senior High School	Belle Plaine Comm	94.1%	191	203
Keystone Elementary School	Benton Comm	87.4%	111	127