Radiant Elementary School

Located at 5050 170th ST, in Urbandale, Iowa, Radiant Elementary School is a modestly sized elementary-level community that hosts 273 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Waukee Comm School District.

Radiant Elementary School is one of 19 schools operated by Waukee Comm School District, a district that instructs 13,917 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Radiant Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White at 55%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 16% Black, 10% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 84% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Radiant Elementary School has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Radiant Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 30% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Radiant Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 76.7%; this one delivers 77.8%.

In the broader community, census data for Dallas County shows median household income runs about $102,379, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Dallas County's 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,938 students), Radiant Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Waterford Elementary School, roughly 1.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Radiant Elementary School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 83.5%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

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