Enrollment
361
Elementary
DISTRICT 369 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·AMES COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 190354000056
Meeker Elementary School
300 20th Street, Ames, IA 50010 · (515) 239-3770 · Story County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL361 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 66% of Iowa public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Iowa public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.8:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
42%
152 students
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 41%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 56 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 63 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 71 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 47 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 60 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (56) is 7% smaller than its 5th grade class (60).
Student demographics
48%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 48% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Ames Comm School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
75.8%
IA avg 73.6% . +1.9pp since 2023
Math
75.2%
IA avg 70.9% . +1.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 75.8% | 75.2% |
| 2023-24 | 73.9% | 73.9% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: ISASP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
75.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
70.9%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 71% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Iowa's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Meeker Elementary School
Meeker Elementary School's state test result (75.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meeker Elementary School this school | 361 | 42.1% | 75.9% |
| Linn Grove Elementary School Marion | 385 | 44.4% | 70.5% |
| Wilkins Elementary School Marion | 348 | 41.1% | 69.1% |
| Hoover Elementary School Dubuque | 292 | 44.5% | 63.9% |
| Sergeant Bluff-Luton Primary School Sergeant Bluff | 349 | 39.8% | N/A |
| East Elementary School Ankeny | 409 | 46.2% | 70.9% |
Matched among Iowa elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Meeker Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Story County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 75.9% | #225 of 564 | #7 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 75.2% | #299 of 564 ▲ 24 | #7 of 11 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.8% | #228 of 564 ▼ 7 | #6 of 11 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 361 | #272 of 705 | #9 of 13 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #51 of 561 | #2 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.6% | #234 of 561 | #5 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 42.1% | #332 of 666 | #4 of 13 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.9% | #82 of 359 | N/A |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
361
-27 (-7%) vs 2020
-11% since 1990-91, when it was 405
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 11.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 361 | 32.2 | 11.2:1 | 42% (152) |
| 2023-24 | 365 | 31.2 | 11.7:1 | 39% (141) |
| 2022-23 | 351 | 29.9 | 11.7:1 | 38% (132) |
| 2020-21 | 388 | 33 | 11.8:1 | 44% (169) |
| 2017-18 | 462 | 34.7 | 13.3:1 | 44% (205) |
| 2015-16 | 468 | 34 | 13.8:1 | 45% (209) |
| 2010-11 | 388 | 29 | 13.4:1 | 33% (127) |
| 2000-01 | 248 | 12 | 20.7:1 | 16% (39) |
| 1990-91 | 405 | 21 | 19.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Meeker Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (462 to 361); teachers down 7% (34.7 to 32.2).
About Meeker Elementary School
Meeker Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school located in Ames, Iowa. Students in kindergarten through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 361 students.
Meeker Elementary School is one of the 8 schools that make up Ames Comm School District (4,688 students in total).
White students are 70% of those enrolled at Meeker Elementary School. The rest of enrollment is 12% multiracial, 9% Hispanic, 5% Black, and 2% Asian. Census estimates put the White share of Story County's population at about 82%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 48%.
On staff are 32.2 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 11.2:1. Statewide, elementary schools in Iowa average 13.7:1. Meeker Elementary School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 42%. On average, public schools in Story County report 28%.
On the allk12 Grade, Meeker Elementary School lands at B+, ahead of 66% of Iowa public elementary schools.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for Meeker Elementary School is 70.9%, and its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 75.9%.
For the population of Story County, the median household earns about $69,685 a year, about 55% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Across Story County, 26 public schools serve about 11,665 students.
Among nearby public schools, Fellows Elementary School is closest at about 0.7 miles. Meeker Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Meeker Elementary School comes in 4th of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Small, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment was 361 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 388.
On allk12, people connected to Meeker Elementary School can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Story County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
100,466
Census ACS
Median income
$69,685
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
55%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
26
11,665 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Ames Comm School District
- Ames High SchoolHigh · 1,440 students
- Ames Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,033 students
- Fellows Elementary SchoolElementary · 489 students
- Edwards Elementary SchoolElementary · 436 students
- Sawyer Elementary SchoolElementary · 371 students
- Mitchell Elementary SchoolElementary · 314 students
Other schools in Ames
- Ames High SchoolHigh · 1,440 students
- Ames Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,033 students
- Fellows Elementary SchoolElementary · 489 students
- Edwards Elementary SchoolElementary · 436 students
- Sawyer Elementary SchoolElementary · 371 students
- Mitchell Elementary SchoolElementary · 314 students
Other Meeker Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 4 states are named Meeker Elementary. Meeker Elementary School is the 3rd largest of the 5.
- Meeker Elementary SchoolGREELEY, CO · 475 students
- Meeker ElementaryPuyallup, WA · 366 students
- Meeker Elementary SchoolMeeker, OK · 333 students
- Meeker Elementary SchoolMEEKER, CO · 285 students
Nearby schools
- Fellows Elementary School0.7 mi · 489
- Northwood Pre-School0.7 mi · 244
- Ames High School0.9 mi · 1,440
- Sawyer Elementary School3.3 mi · 371
- Ames Middle School3.4 mi · 1,033
- Mitchell Elementary School3.5 mi · 314
Frequently asked questions
About Meeker Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Meeker Elementary School?
Meeker Elementary School enrolls approximately 361 students in grades KG-05.
Is Meeker Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Meeker Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Meeker Elementary School?
Approximately 11.2:1 students per teacher at Meeker Elementary School.
How diverse is Meeker Elementary School?
Meeker Elementary School reports a student body of 70% White, 9% Hispanic, 5% Black, 2% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Is Meeker Elementary School public or private?
Meeker Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Ames Comm School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.