Webster Elementary School

As a sizable primary school in Urbandale, Iowa, Webster Elementary School teaches 519 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under Urbandale Comm School District. Compared to the state average of about 325 students per school, that is 60% above typical.

Urbandale Comm School District comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 4,165 students; Webster Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Webster Elementary School reports that White students make up the majority at 73%. The remainder breaks down as 8% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 7% Black, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 24% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Polk County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Webster Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 80.0%, the actual is 85.0%, a residual of +5.0 points.

In the broader community, census data for Polk County shows the typical household earns roughly $83,576 per year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Polk County's 137 public schools (combined enrollment of about 77,436 students), Webster Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Walnut Hills Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Webster Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 82.4%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Webster Elementary School has declined 3%, going from 534 students in 2018 to 519 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 84% to 73% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 today.

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