High · Iowa
Valley Southwoods
Free meals for allValley Southwoods, a public high school in West Des Moines, Iowa: grade 9, 678 students, 13.9 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of West Des Moines 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
- 678
- Teachers (FTE)
- 48.7
- Students per teacher
- 13.9
- Grades
- 9
- High
Fewer students per teacher than 49% of high schools in Iowa
Median 13.9 · 346 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 54% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 80% of high schools in Iowa
Median 295 · 351 schools compared
Larger than 64% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grade 9
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Small city
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with West Des Moines Comm School District.
Location
- Address
- 625 S 35th St, West Des Moines, IA 50265
- Phone
- (515)633-4500
- City or town
- West 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10–12 | 2,178 | 18.3 | |
Walnut Creek CampusAlternativeFree meals for all | 9–12 | 152 | 10.8 |
Roosevelt High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 2,051 | 31.2 |
| 9–12 | 1,301 | 14.8 | |
| 8–9 | 992 | 16.1 | |
| 9 | 539 | 15.1 |
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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