Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 5
Northwest Elementary School, Ankeny, IA
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 346
- Teachers (FTE)
- 27.0
- Students per teacher
- 12.8
- Grades
- K to 5
This school's ratio is 2.7 lower than the district figure of 15.5. 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
- 1202 W First St, Ankeny, IA 50023
- Phone
- (515)965-9680
- District
- Ankeny Comm School District
- County
- Polk County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 190369000074
School meals
- Free lunch
- 94
- Reduced-price lunch
- 35
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 12937.3% of enrollment.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- No
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 elementary schools in Ankeny Comm School District
- Rock Creek Elementary 639 students
- Heritage Elementary 604 students
- Northeast Elementary 595 students
- Southeast Elementary School 585 students
- Westwood Elementary School 551 students
- Ashland Ridge Elementary 548 students
- Prairie Trail Elementary 526 students
- Crocker Elementary School 489 students
- Abbie Grove Elementary 445 students
- East Elementary School 409 students
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.