High · Iowa

Great Oaks High School and Career Center

Charter

Great Oaks High School and Career Center, a public high school in Des Moines, Iowa: grades 9–12, 72 students, 24.2 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Charter Organization: Oakmont Education.

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: 72
Teachers (FTE): 3.0
Students per teacher: 24.2
Grades: 9–12; High

More students per teacher than 96% of high schools in Iowa

Median 13.9 · 346 schools compared

More students per teacher than 93% of high schools in the US

Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared

Smaller than 96% of high schools in Iowa

Median 295 · 351 schools compared

Smaller than 86% of high schools in the US

Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared

State test results

No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.

What it offers

Grades: High · Grades 9–12
Type: Charter school · Regular
Instruction: In person
Area: Midsize city
Run by: Charter Organization: Oakmont Education

Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Charter Organization: Oakmont Education.

Location

Address: 100 East Euclid, Des Moines, IA 50313
Phone: (319)321-9976
City or town: Des Moines
County: Polk County

Website Quality of life in Des Moines Schools in Des Moines

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	0.8 mi
Saydel High SchoolFree meals for all	9–12	458	16.6	2.3 mi
East High SchoolFree meals for all	9–12	1,952	21.8	2.4 mi
Virtual CampusFully virtual	9–12	380	24.0	3.4 mi
Hoover High SchoolFree meals for all	9–12	898	20.6	3.4 mi
Roosevelt High SchoolFree meals for all	9–12	2,051	31.2	4.0 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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