Shuler Elementary School

Shuler Elementary School is a roomy elementary-level community in Clive, Iowa, one of the schools within Waukee Comm School District. The school hosts 592 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 325 students per school, that is 82% larger than typical.

Within Waukee Comm School District, which oversees 19 schools and 13,917 students, Shuler Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Shuler Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 7% multiracial, 6% Asian, 4% Hispanic, 3% Black.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Shuler Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 7% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Dallas County's rate of about 22%.

After controlling for student poverty, Shuler Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 88.7%; this one delivers 87.6%.

Zooming out to the county, Dallas County reports that median household earnings sit near $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), Shuler Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Walnut Hills Elementary School, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Shuler Elementary School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 80.2%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Shuler Elementary School has edged down 13%, going from 684 students in 2018 to 592 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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