Bettendorf, Iowa Bettendorf, Iowa Top: Quad Cities Waterfront Convention Center, Bettendorf House, Middle: I-74 Bridge, Bottom: The Abbey Center, The Family Museum.
Top: Quad Cities Waterfront Convention Center, Bettendorf House, Middle: I-74 Bridge, Bottom: The Abbey Center, The Family Museum.
Bettendorf, Iowa is positioned in the US Bettendorf, Iowa - Bettendorf, Iowa Bettendorf is a town/city in Scott County, Iowa, United States.
Bettendorf is the fifteenth biggest city in the U.S.
State of Iowa and the fourth biggest city in the "Quad Cities".
The populace was 33,217 at the 2010 census, and was estimated to be 35,505 by July 2015. Bettendorf is one of the Quad Cities, along with neighboring Davenport and the Illinois metros/cities of Moline, East Moline and Rock Island.
The Quad Cities has a populace estimate of 382,630. In 2011, Bettendorf was titled U.S.
6.1 Bettendorf School District 6.2 Pleasant Valley School District Bettendorf lies in the initial Wisconsin Territory, which the United States bought from the Sac and Fox Indians after defeating them in the Black Hawk War.
Circa 1900, the town gave William and Joseph Bettendorf 70 acres (280,000 m2) of riverfront territory on the condition that they move their iron wagon company from Davenport to Gilbert.
In 1903, the town of 440 people petitioned for incorporation, requesting to change the town's name with respect to the brothers whose factory was a primary economic influence in the early evolution of the city.
The huge mill, and the attendant developments from it, created thousands of jobs and greatly increased expansion in Bettendorf's population, which has continued to the present day.
The first modern-day riverboat casinos in the United States were launched in Bettendorf on April 1, 1991 by small-town businessman Bernard Goldstein.
Goldstein and his family members also operate Alter Companies, which is a scrap metal, barge and towboat business operating on the river waterfront. The Quad Cities Waterfront Convention Center opened by the casino and hotel in 2009. It is owned by the town/city and directed by the Isle of Capri.
Bettendorf is positioned at 41 33 0 N 90 29 37 W (41.550044, 90.493679). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 22.36 square miles (57.91 km2), of which, 21.22 square miles (54.96 km2) is territory and 1.14 square miles (2.95 km2) is water. According to the City's 2010 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 3 Bettendorf Community School District 594 4 Pleasant Valley School District 435 5 Eastern Iowa Community College District 402 8 City of Bettendorf 313 Bettendorf's town/city hall, police station, Bettendorf has a mayor and town/city council form of government with seven town/city council members.
For other college studies schools in the area, see Quad Cities Colleges and Universities.
Bettendorf School District The Bettendorf School District covers most areas of central, northern and Bettendorf.
Elementary students are assigned to one of six elementary schools: titled in honor of Neil Armstrong, Herbert Hoover, Thomas Jefferson, Paul Norton, Mark Twain and Grant Wood.
The precinct also has a middle and high school.
The Neil Armstrong School, most recently built, is the only one in the precinct to operate on a "balanced calendar" of year-round, full-time use.
Pleasant Valley School District Pleasant Valley High School is one of the two high schools in Bettendorf.
The Pleasant Valley School District encompasses areas of easterly Bettendorf, as well as the outlying communities of Pleasant Valley, Riverdale and Le - Claire.
Located inside the town/city limits are three of the district's 5 elementary schools (Pleasant View, Riverdale Heights, and Hopewell), Pleasant Valley High School and the administrative center.
Junior high students are bussed to Pleasant Valley Junior High School, on the outskirts of Le - Claire, while Le - Claire elementary students go to either Cody or Bridgeview Elementary Schools.
Board members are propel from seven director districts, five inside Bettendorf's town/city limits and two the rest serving Le - Claire-area residents.
The high school has 1,232 students, the junior high 501 students, and the four combined elementary schools 1,821 students.
Both high schools are part of the Mississippi Athletic Conference for sports.
Also positioned inside the town/city limits are Rivermont Collegiate, a nonsectarian, autonomous, multicultural, college-preparatory school for preschool through 12th-grade students; Lourdes Catholic School, a Roman Catholic school for preschool through 8th-grade students; and Morning Star Academy, a Christian school for preschool through 12th-grade students.
Bettendorf, namesake of the city.
Scott Community College, part of the Eastern Iowa Community College District, is positioned in Riverdale, but is generally referred to as being positioned in Bettendorf. Two private universities are also positioned in Bettendorf: Upper Iowa University a private college based in Fayette, Iowa, operates its Quad Cities Center in Bettendorf near the Davenport border; the Quad Cities Campus of Brown Mackie College, a for-profit college based in Salina, Kansas, is positioned nearby. The Bettendorf, Pleasant Valley, and North Scott school districts operate a consortium alternative high school, Edison Academy, in downtown Bettendorf.
The Mississippi Bend Area Education Agency, one of nine such agencies in the state of Iowa, operates a Learning Center in the former Bettendorf High School building in central Bettendorf, offering experienced evolution and closing education services for educators, as well as driver education and home school testing services for students. Quad Cities Media Quad Cities sports squads Mississippi Athletic Conference for high school sports.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2013".
"Annual Estimates of the Population of Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2011" (CSV). Population Division.
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