Elementary · Iowa

Downtown School

Free meals for all

Downtown School, a public elementary school in Des Moines, Iowa: grades k–5, 197 students, 13.4 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Des Moines Independent Comm School District.

Size and class size

Compared with elementary schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.

Students: 197
Teachers (FTE): 14.7
Students per teacher: 13.4
Grades: K–5; Elementary

More students per teacher than 50% of elementary schools in Iowa

Median 13.3 · 668 schools compared

Fewer students per teacher than 63% of elementary schools in the US

Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared

Smaller than 82% of elementary schools in Iowa

Median 320 · 669 schools compared

Smaller than 88% of elementary schools in the US

Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared

What it offers

Grades: Elementary · Grades K–5
Type: District school · Regular
Instruction: In person
Meals: Free breakfast and lunch for every student
Area: Midsize city
Run by: Des Moines Independent Comm School District

Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Des Moines Independent Comm School District.

Location

Address: 1800 Grand Avenue, Des Moines, IA 50309
Phone: (515)284-5848
City or town: Des Moines
County: Polk County

Quality of life in Des Moines Schools in Des Moines

Nearby elementary schools

The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.

School	Grades	Students	Students / teacher
Walnut Street SchoolFree meals for all	Pre-K–5	257	14.9	0.7 mi
Edmunds Elementary SchoolFree meals for all	K–5	259	9.0	0.8 mi
Greenwood Elementary SchoolFree meals for all	Pre-K–5	293	14.6	1.3 mi
King Elementary SchoolFree meals for all	K–5	315	13.1	1.4 mi
Moulton Elementary SchoolFree meals for all	Pre-K–5	465	14.3	1.8 mi
Hubbell ElementaryFree meals for all	K–5	362	14.8	1.8 mi

Sources

Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).

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