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Enrollment
1,470
High
DISTRICT 1,195 · STATE 468
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ANKENY COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 190369002187
Ankeny Centennial High School
2220 NW State St, Ankeny, IA 50023 · (515) 965-9610 · Polk County
GRADES 10–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,470 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 71% of Iowa public high schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Iowa public high schools
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
88 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.1:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
17%
243 students
DISTRICT 22% · STATE 41%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 10 | 508 | 35% |
| Grade 11 | 503 | 34% |
| Grade 12 | 459 | 31% |
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 41% · STATE 48% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
85.1%
IA avg 73.6% . +1.0pp since 2023
Math
82.1%
IA avg 70.9% . +4.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 85 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 82 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 85.1% | 82.1% |
| 2023-24 | 84.1% | 78.0% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: ISASP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
81.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
83.7%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 81% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 84% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Iowa's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Ankeny Centennial High School
Ankeny Centennial High School's state test result (81.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ankeny Centennial High School this school | 1,470 | 16.5% | 81.3% |
| Northview Middle School Ankeny | 1,021 | 17.1% | 85.7% |
| Dallas Center-Grimes High School Grimes | 1,073 | 17.8% | 75.7% |
| Cedar Falls High School Cedar Falls | 1,333 | 20.7% | 79.5% |
| Ankeny High School Ankeny | 1,375 | 23.0% | 79.5% |
| Pella High School Pella | 801 | 14.6% | 88.5% |
Matched among Iowa high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Ankeny Centennial High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Polk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 81.3% | #45 of 313 | #4 of 18 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 82.1% | #37 of 314 ▲ 20 | #3 of 18 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 85.1% | #58 of 314 ▲ 17 | #5 of 18 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,470 | #21 of 340 | #7 of 20 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.7:1 | #213 of 259 | #8 of 18 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.8% | #82 of 260 | #15 of 18 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 16.5% | #301 of 320 | #18 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +22.8% | #35 of 133 | #4 of 13 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,470
+130 (+10%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
was 17.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,470 | 88 | 16.7:1 | 17% (243) |
| 2023-24 | 1,466 | 89.2 | 16.4:1 | 12% (172) |
| 2022-23 | 1,443 | 89 | 16.2:1 | 16% (231) |
| 2020-21 | 1,340 | 79 | 17.0:1 | 10% (129) |
| 2017-18 | 1,197 | 68 | 17.6:1 | 11% (126) |
| 2015-16 | 1,106 | 66 | 16.8:1 | 8% (89) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ankeny Centennial High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 23% (1,197 to 1,470); teachers up 29% (68 to 88).
About Ankeny Centennial High School
Ankeny Centennial High School is a large high school with its address in Ankeny, Iowa. Its enrollment is 1,470 students, spread over grades 10 through 12. Across high schools in Iowa, the average enrollment is about 468.
Ankeny Comm School District runs 18 schools with a combined 12,746 students. Ankeny Centennial High School is one of them.
More than half of enrollment at Ankeny Centennial High School is White: 79%. Other students are 8% Hispanic, 5% Black, 5% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Polk County residents are about 76% White, a similar share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 37, compared with 70 nationally.
Ankeny Centennial High School has 88 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.7:1. It is about the same as the 17.3:1 average for high schools in Iowa. The school has 17% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is below the 49% average among public schools in Polk County.
Ankeny Centennial High School holds a B+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 71% of Iowa public high schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 83.7% for Ankeny Centennial High School. The school posts 81.3%, 2.4 points below the prediction.
For Polk County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $83,576 a year, roughly 40% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Ankeny Centennial High School, Polk County has 137 public schools.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Ashland Ridge Elementary, is about 0.6 miles. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Ankeny Centennial High School ranks 6th of 8 on average proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, Ankeny Centennial High School enrolled 1,340 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 1,470.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at Ankeny Centennial High School. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Polk County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
503,175
Census ACS
Median income
$83,576
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
137
77,436 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Ankeny Comm School District
- Ankeny High SchoolHigh · 1,375 students
- Northview Middle SchoolHigh · 1,021 students
- Prairie Ridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,004 students
- Southview Middle SchoolHigh · 913 students
- Parkview Middle SchoolMiddle · 865 students
- Rock Creek ElementaryElementary · 639 students
Other schools in Ankeny
- Ankeny High SchoolHigh · 1,375 students
- Northview Middle SchoolHigh · 1,021 students
- Prairie Ridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,004 students
- Southview Middle SchoolHigh · 913 students
- Parkview Middle SchoolMiddle · 865 students
- Rock Creek ElementaryElementary · 639 students
Nearby schools
- Ashland Ridge Elementary0.6 mi · 548
- Rock Creek Elementary0.9 mi · 639
- Prairie Ridge Middle School0.9 mi · 1,004
- Westwood Elementary School1.1 mi · 551
- Northview Middle School1.2 mi · 1,021
- Northwest Elementary School1.3 mi · 346
Frequently asked questions
About Ankeny Centennial High SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Ankeny Centennial High School?
Ankeny Centennial High School enrolls approximately 1,470 students in grades 10-12.
Is Ankeny Centennial High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Ankeny Centennial High School is a high school covering grades 10-12.
How many students per teacher at Ankeny Centennial High School?
Approximately 16.7:1 students per teacher at Ankeny Centennial High School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Ankeny Centennial High School?
At Ankeny Centennial High School, the student body is approximately 79% White, 8% Hispanic, 5% Black, 3% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Ankeny Centennial High School public or private?
Ankeny Centennial High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Ankeny Comm School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.