Heritage Elementary

Heritage Elementary is one of the roomy primary schools in Ankeny, Iowa, one of the schools within Ankeny Comm School District, with 604 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. That puts it 86% above the typical public school in Iowa, which averages around 325 students.

Ankeny Comm School District comprises 18 schools with combined enrollment of 12,746 students; Heritage Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Heritage Elementary shows that 69% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 15% Hispanic, 6% Black, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Heritage Elementary has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Heritage Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 34% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Polk County (around 49%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Heritage Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 75.0%; this one delivers 74.9%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Polk County) logs that median household income runs about $83,576, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Heritage Elementary is one of 137 public schools in Polk County (combined enrollment of about 77,436 students).

Nearest neighbor: Ankeny High School, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Heritage Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 79.0%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.