Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8
Callanan Middle School, Des Moines, IA
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 553
- Teachers (FTE)
- 35.0
- Students per teacher
- 15.8
- Grades
- 6 to 8
This school's ratio is 1.3 higher than the district figure of 14.5. The Iowa average across schools is 14.4. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 3010 Center Street, Des Moines, IA 50312
- Phone
- (515)242-8101
- County
- Polk County
- Level
- Middle
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Locale
- City: Midsize
- NCES school ID
- 190897000519
School meals
- Free lunch
- 403
- Reduced-price lunch
- 39
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 44279.9% of enrollment.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other middle schools in Des Moines Independent Comm School District
- Weeks Middle School 688 students
- McCombs Middle School 670 students
- Meredith Middle School 662 students
- Merrill Middle School 657 students
- Brody Middle School 641 students
- Harding Middle School 603 students
- Goodrell Middle School 511 students
- Hiatt Middle School 488 students
- Hoyt Middle School 455 students
Middle schools elsewhere in Des Moines
- Woodside Middle School Saydel Comm School District
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.