Crossroads Park Elementary School

Located at 1050 50th St, in West Des Moines, Iowa, Crossroads Park Elementary School is a well-populated K-5 school that works with 530 students (grades K through 6), one of the schools within West Des Moines Comm School District. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so Crossroads Park Elementary School sits 63% larger than that benchmark.

West Des Moines Comm School District runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 9,009 students. Crossroads Park Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Crossroads Park Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 21% Hispanic, 13% Black, 8% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 76%.

Looking at school resources, Crossroads Park Elementary School logs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Roughly 52% of students at Crossroads Park Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Crossroads Park Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Iowa schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 66.2%; actual is 79.9%, +13.8 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Polk County) records that median household earnings sit near $83,576, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Polk County runs 137 public schools (combined enrollment of about 77,436 students), of which Crossroads Park Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Valley High School, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Crossroads Park Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 75.3%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Crossroads Park Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 3% since 2018, when it stood at 548 (now 530). White enrollment moved from 64% to 54% across the same window.

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