Great Oaks

Due to the excellent school ratings for the Pleasant Valley (IA) school district, there is a high demand for new housing to be built so that people can move into this district. With a large surge of new homes build and sold, new families moving in almost daily for the 'nice part' of Bettendorf, the student-to-teacher ratio for the elementary schools is now closer to 25:1 (yes that's correct) due to overcrowding of the elementary schools. Our child had 26 children in his classroom and one teacher. The entire school ran out of chairs for kids to use because every single chair was needed in the classrooms, library, and so forth. Just be cautioned for new families moving to this part of Iowa that the Pleasant Valley school district is growing faster than new schools are being built, and the school district seems very reluctant to understand or want to deal with the issue because 'new schools are expensive'. Bettendorf will happily allow the rapid building of new homes and businesses, but they're very slow on infrastructure projects to accommodate traffic pattern changes and adjusting public schools to that same fast growth. If you move to this school district, your child is not guaranteed a seat at one of the elementary schools, even if your home is within the boundary. We experienced this issue in 2017 and the situation has not improved. You may be asked to have your child move to an open spot at another school, likely in Le Claire, until a future school after being on the waiting list with other families.