Abbie Grove Elementary

Abbie Grove Elementary is a K-5 school of medium-sized scale in Ankeny, Iowa, one of the schools within Ankeny Comm School District, works with 445 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 37% bigger than the state mean of about 325.

Ankeny Comm School District runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 12,746 students. Abbie Grove Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Abbie Grove Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). Beyond that, the school records 7% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 76%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Abbie Grove Elementary has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.1:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 11% of students at Abbie Grove Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Polk County's rate of about 49%.

Around the school, Polk County reports that median household earnings sit near $83,576, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Polk County's 137 public schools (combined enrollment of about 77,436 students), Abbie Grove Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Westwood Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Abbie Grove Elementary.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.