Vince Meyer Early Learning Center

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in Waukee, Iowa, Vince Meyer Early Learning Center teaches 348 students from grade pre-K, part of Waukee Comm School District.

Vince Meyer Early Learning Center is one of 19 schools operated by Waukee Comm School District, a district that enrolls 13,917 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Vince Meyer Early Learning Center shows that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 15% Hispanic, 14% Black, 10% multiracial, 8% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Vince Meyer Early Learning Center higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 14% of students at Vince Meyer Early Learning Center qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Dallas County runs at roughly 22%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, census data for Dallas County shows median household earnings sit near $102,379, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Dallas County's 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,938 students), Vince Meyer Early Learning Center is one campus in the mix.

Waukee Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Vince Meyer Early Learning Center.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

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