High · Iowa
North High School
Free meals for allNorth High School, a public high school in Des Moines, Iowa: grades 9–12, 1,428 students, 21.5 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
- 1,428
- Teachers (FTE)
- 66.5
- Students per teacher
- 21.5
- 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 87% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 93% of high schools in Iowa
Median 295 · 351 schools compared
Larger than 84% 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
- 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
- 501 Holcomb Ave, Des Moines, IA 50313
- Phone
- (515)242-7200
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9–12 | 72 | 24.2 | |
East High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,952 | 21.8 |
Virtual CampusFully virtual | 9–12 | 380 | 24.0 |
Saydel High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 458 | 16.6 |
Roosevelt High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 2,051 | 31.2 |
Hoover High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 898 | 20.6 |
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).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
NCES 190897000566