Meadow View Elementary

Meadow View Elementary, a heavily attended primary school in Adel, Iowa, part of Adel DeSoto Minburn Comm School District, serves 520 students, covering grades 2 through 4. Compared to the state average of about 325 students per school, that is 60% larger than typical.

Adel DeSoto Minburn Comm School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,278 students; Meadow View Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Meadow View Elementary shows that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 20% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Meadow View Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 82.1%; this one delivers 83.3%.

In the surrounding community, Dallas County reports that the typical household earns roughly $102,379 per year, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Dallas County's 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,938 students), Meadow View Elementary is one campus in the mix.

ADM Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Meadow View Elementary. On composite proficiency, Meadow View Elementary comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 87.6%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.