Edwards Elementary School

Set in Ames, Iowa, Edwards Elementary School is a medium-sized primary school, part of Ames Comm School District. It educates 436 students across grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 34% above the state mean of about 325.

Across the 8 schools in Ames Comm School District (4,688 students total), Edwards Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Edwards Elementary School shows that 56% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 18% Black, 11% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 7% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Edwards Elementary School has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.0:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 44% of students at Edwards Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Story County (around 28%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Edwards Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 69.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 71.5%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Story County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $69,685 per year, 55% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Story County runs 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,665 students), of which Edwards Elementary School is one.

Ames Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Edwards Elementary School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 73.5%.

Edwards Elementary School operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Edwards Elementary School has edged up 10%, going from 396 students in 2018 to 436 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 65% to 56%.

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