High · Iowa
East High School
Free meals for allEast High School, a public high school in Des Moines, Iowa: grades 9–12, 1,952 students, 21.8 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Des Moines Independent Comm School District.
Size and class size
Compared with high 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
- 1,952
- Teachers (FTE)
- 89.4
- Students per teacher
- 21.8
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
More students per teacher than 95% of high schools in Iowa
Median 13.9 · 346 schools compared
More students per teacher than 88% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 99% of high schools in Iowa
Median 295 · 351 schools compared
Larger than 92% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- Some virtual classes
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Midsize city
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
- 815 E 13th St, Des Moines, IA 50316
- Phone
- (515)242-7788
- City or town
- Des Moines
- County
- Polk County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
North High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,428 | 21.5 |
Virtual CampusFully virtual | 9–12 | 380 | 24.0 |
| 9–12 | 72 | 24.2 | |
Lincoln High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 2,364 | 25.2 |
Roosevelt High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 2,051 | 31.2 |
Saydel High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 458 | 16.6 |
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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