Anderson Elementary School

Anderson Elementary School, a heavily attended K-5 school in Bondurant, Iowa, operated by Bondurant-Farrar Comm School District, teaches 531 students, covering grades 2 through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 63% above the state mean of about 325.

Anderson Elementary School is one of 5 schools operated by Bondurant-Farrar Comm School District, a district that educates 2,824 students overall.

On demographics, Anderson Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%). Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Black.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Anderson Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 22% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Polk County's rate of about 49%.

After controlling for student poverty, Anderson Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 80.7%, the actual is 77.6%, a residual of -3.1 points.

In the area at large, census data for Polk County shows median household earnings sit near $83,576, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Polk County runs 137 public schools (combined enrollment of about 77,436 students), of which Anderson Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Bondurant - Farrar Intermediate School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Anderson Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Anderson Elementary School at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 74.2%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Anderson Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 17% since 2018, when it stood at 636 (now 531). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 90% to 81% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.