Fellows Elementary School

As a sprawling elementary-level community in Ames, Iowa, Fellows Elementary School hosts 489 students from grades K through 5, operated by Ames Comm School District. Enrollment runs roughly 50% above the state mean of about 325.

Fellows Elementary School is one of 8 schools operated by Ames Comm School District, a district that instructs 4,688 students overall.

On demographics, Fellows Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White, at 56% of enrollment; the rest looks like 17% Asian, 14% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

On the resource side, Fellows Elementary School logs 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.9:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 29% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Fellows Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 77.5%; this one delivers 83.5%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Story County shows the typical household earns roughly $69,685 per year, about 55% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Story County runs 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,665 students), of which Fellows Elementary School is one.

Ames High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fellows Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 76.2%.

Fellows Elementary School operates from an inner-city location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Fellows Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 12% since 2018, when it stood at 553 (now 489). Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 6% to 14%. Class-load math has fell: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.

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