Elementary · Iowa
Prairie Trail Elementary
Prairie Trail Elementary, a public elementary school in Ankeny, Iowa: grades k–5, 526 students, 16.4 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Ankeny 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
- 526
- Teachers (FTE)
- 32.0
- Students per teacher
- 16.4
- Grades
- K–5
- Elementary
More students per teacher than 93% of elementary schools in Iowa
Median 13.3 · 668 schools compared
More students per teacher than 69% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Larger than 87% of elementary schools in Iowa
Median 320 · 669 schools compared
Larger than 70% 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
- Area
- Large suburb
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Ankeny Comm School District.
Location
- Address
- 1850 SW College Ave, Ankeny, IA 50023
- Phone
- (515)965-9605
- City or town
- Ankeny
- County
- Polk County
Nearby elementary schools
The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| K–5 | 489 | 14.4 | |
| K–5 | 604 | 15.9 | |
| K–5 | 346 | 12.8 | |
| K–5 | 551 | 15.7 | |
| K–5 | 585 | 14.6 | |
| K–5 | 409 | 14.1 |
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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