Edmunds Elementary School

Edmunds Elementary School is one of the intimate elementary schools in Des Moines, Iowa, part of Des Moines Independent Comm School District, with 259 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 325 students per school, that is 20% smaller than typical.

Des Moines Independent Comm School District comprises 59 schools with combined enrollment of 29,676 students; Edmunds Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Edmunds Elementary School records that the largest single group is Black, at 72% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 14% Hispanic, 7% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 7%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Edmunds Elementary School has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Polk County's rate of about 49%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Edmunds Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Iowa public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 45.0%; Edmunds Elementary School posts 33.0%, -12.0 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, Polk County reports that the typical household earns roughly $83,576 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Polk County's 137 public schools (combined enrollment of about 77,436 students), Edmunds Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

King Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Edmunds Elementary School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 51.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Looking at the recent track record. Edmunds Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 17% since 2018, when it stood at 312 (now 259). Class-load math has fell: from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 9.1:1 in 2025.

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