Public school / Primary
Jordan Creek Elementary School
West Des Moines, Iowa
- NCES ID
- 193093000168
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Jordan Creek Elementary School is a public primary school in West Des Moines, Iowa, run by West Des Moines Comm School District. It enrols 647 students — the 22862nd largest of 1,337 public schools in Iowa.
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
647
Teachers
39.0
Students per teacher
16.6
Free or reduced-price lunch
22.6%
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.
Within West Des Moines 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.
- 1Valley High School2,152 students
- 2Westridge Elementary748 students
- 3Indian Hills Junior High School696 students
- 4Valley Southwoods687 students
- 5Stilwell Junior High School684 students
- 6Jordan Creek Elementary School647 students
- 7Western Hills Elementary School579 students
- 8Crestview School of Inquiry574 students
- Enrollment+80.7%
- Teachers+69.6%
- Students per teacher+16.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−42.8%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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