Public school / Primary
Prairie Trail Elementary
Ankeny, Iowa
- NCES ID
- 190369002183
- District
- Ankeny Comm School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Prairie Trail Elementary is a public primary school in Ankeny, Iowa, run by Ankeny Comm School District. It enrols 571 students — the 29453rd 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
571
Teachers
34.0
Students per teacher
16.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
7.0%
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 Ankeny 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.
- 1Ankeny Centennial High School1,443 students
- 2Ankeny High School1,347 students
- 3Northview Middle School1,065 students
- 4Prairie Ridge Middle School1,025 students
- 5Southview Middle School896 students
- 6Parkview Middle School867 students
- 7Ashland Ridge Elementary759 students
- 8Rock Creek Elementary732 students
- Enrollment+59.5%
- Teachers+47.8%
- Students per teacher+18.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−82.3%
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