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Alumni: what's one memory from Ashland Ridge Elementary that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
548
Elementary
DISTRICT 508 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ANKENY COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 190369002094
Ashland Ridge Elementary
2600 NW Ash Drive, Ankeny, IA 50023 · (515) 965-9594 · Polk County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL548 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 63% of Iowa public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
14%
77 students
DISTRICT 22% · STATE 41%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 107 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 72 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 86 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 94 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 97 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 92 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (107) is 16% larger than its 5th grade class (92).
Student demographics
38%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
84.8%
IA avg 73.6% . -0.1pp since 2023
Math
84.5%
IA avg 70.9% . +0.4pp 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 85 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 84.8% | 84.5% |
| 2023-24 | 84.9% | 84.1% |
% 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
82.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
84.9%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 82% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 85% 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 Ashland Ridge Elementary
Ashland Ridge Elementary's state test result (82.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashland Ridge Elementary this school | 548 | 14.1% | 82.2% |
| Northeast Elementary Ankeny | 595 | 12.6% | 83.9% |
| Helen A Hansen Elementary School Cedar Falls | 569 | 12.7% | 87.8% |
| Penn Elementary School North Liberty | 512 | 13.3% | 81.6% |
| Cody Elementary School LeClaire | 443 | 13.8% | 88.8% |
| Bess Streeter Aldrich Elementary Cedar Falls | 472 | 10.4% | 90.7% |
Matched among Iowa elementary 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 Ashland Ridge Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Polk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 82.2% | #89 of 564 | #10 of 78 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 84.5% | #135 of 564 ▼ 12 | #14 of 78 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 84.8% | #66 of 564 ▼ 24 | #9 of 78 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 548 | #69 of 705 | #22 of 89 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.7:1 | #494 of 561 | #71 of 86 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 38.0% | #282 of 561 | #71 of 86 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 14.1% | #631 of 666 | #79 of 89 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.3% | #122 of 359 | #22 of 64 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
548
-132 (-19%) vs 2020
-27% since 2010-11, when it was 751
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
was 19.4:1
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 | 548 | 35 | 15.7:1 | 14% (77) |
| 2023-24 | 768 | 45 | 17.1:1 | 11% (81) |
| 2022-23 | 759 | 37.9 | 20.0:1 | 11% (81) |
| 2020-21 | 680 | 35 | 19.4:1 | 6% (42) |
| 2017-18 | 663 | 30.9 | 21.5:1 | 7% (47) |
| 2015-16 | 602 | 32 | 18.8:1 | 7% (42) |
| 2010-11 | 751 | 33 | 22.8:1 | 8% (61) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ashland Ridge Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (663 to 548); teachers up 13% (30.9 to 35).
About Ashland Ridge Elementary
Ashland Ridge Elementary is a large elementary school with its address in Ankeny, Iowa. The school covers kindergarten through 5 and reported 548 students in 2024-25. Across elementary schools in Iowa, the average enrollment is about 325.
Ashland Ridge Elementary belongs to Ankeny Comm School District, a district of 18 schools and 12,746 students.
White students are 78% of those enrolled at Ashland Ridge Elementary. The next largest groups are 7% Hispanic, 5% Black, 5% multiracial, and 5% Asian. That is in line with Polk County, where about 76% of residents are White. A diversity index of 38% means there is a 38% chance two randomly chosen students at Ashland Ridge Elementary are from different groups.
Ashland Ridge Elementary has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 15.7:1. Elementary schools in Iowa have an average ratio of 13.7:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 14%. That is lower than the 49% average for public schools in Polk County.
Ashland Ridge Elementary holds a B allk12 Grade, placing it above 63% of Iowa public elementary schools.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 82.2%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 84.9%.
Census data for Polk County show the median household earns about $83,576 a year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Counting Ashland Ridge Elementary, Polk County has 137 public schools.
Ankeny Centennial High School is about 0.6 miles from Ashland Ridge Elementary, the shortest distance to any other public school. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Nearby schools with test data average 81.3% proficiency; Ashland Ridge Elementary posts 82.2%.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
Enrollment decreased by 19% across 4 years, from 680 in 2020-21 to 548 in 2024-25. The ratio was 19.4:1 in 2020-21 and 15.7:1 in 2024-25.
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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 Centennial High SchoolHigh · 1,470 students
- 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
Other schools in Ankeny
- Ankeny Centennial High SchoolHigh · 1,470 students
- 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
Nearby schools
- Ankeny Centennial High School0.6 mi · 1,470
- Northview Middle School1.0 mi · 1,021
- Prairie Ridge Middle School1.0 mi · 1,004
- Rock Creek Elementary1.0 mi · 639
- Northeast Elementary1.3 mi · 595
- Terrace Learning Center1.4 mi · 361
Frequently asked questions
About Ashland Ridge ElementaryHow large is Ashland Ridge Elementary?
Ashland Ridge Elementary enrolls approximately 548 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Ashland Ridge Elementary serve?
Ashland Ridge Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does Ashland Ridge Elementary have?
Ashland Ridge Elementary employs 35 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.7:1.
What is the student diversity at Ashland Ridge Elementary?
Student demographics at Ashland Ridge Elementary are roughly 78% White, 7% Hispanic, 5% Black, 5% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Ashland Ridge Elementary in?
Ashland Ridge Elementary is part of Ankeny Comm School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.