Heritage Elementary

Located at 500 NE Beaverbrooke Blvd, in Grimes, Iowa, Heritage Elementary is an expansive elementary-level community that teaches 530 students (grades pre-K through 4), overseen by Dallas Center-Grimes Comm School District. Enrollment runs roughly 63% above the state mean of about 325.

Within Dallas Center-Grimes Comm School District, which oversees 7 schools and 3,743 students, Heritage Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Heritage Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%). Beyond that, the school logs 8% Black, 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian.

Looking at school resources, Heritage Elementary reports 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. About 20% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Polk County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, Polk County reports that median household earnings sit near $83,576, 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), Heritage Elementary is one campus in the mix.

North Ridge Elementary 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.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Heritage Elementary's enrollment has climbed 3% since 2018, when it stood at 513 (now 530). White enrollment moved from 91% to 81% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 in 2025.

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