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Public school / High

Ames High School

Ames, Iowa

NCES ID
190354000050
District
Ames Comm School District
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Ames High School is a public high school in Ames, Iowa, run by Ames Comm School District. It enrols 1,403 students — the 4311th largest of 1,337 public schools in Iowa.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

1,403students

4311th nationally, tied with 8

Teachers

83.0FTE

4416th nationally, tied with 145

Students per teacher

16.9students

63696th nationally, tied with 683

Free or reduced-price lunch

30.0%percent

69568th nationally, tied with 131

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Ames Comm School District

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Ames High School1,403 students
  2. 2Ames Middle School1,002 students
  3. 3Fellows Elementary School528 students
  4. 4Edwards Elementary School450 students
  5. 5Sawyer Elementary School367 students
  6. 6Meeker Elementary School351 students
  7. 7Mitchell Elementary School290 students
  8. 8Northwood Pre-School254 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Iowa median across 1,337 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+291.9%
  • Teachers+260.9%
  • Students per teacher+19.0%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−24.1%
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Where this sits

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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.