NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools IA

Best-Resourced Schools in Grimes, IA

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5 public K-12 schools in Grimes from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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5
Schools
2,988
Students
42.6/100
Avg Resource Index
16.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Grimes has more public-school enrollment than 29% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Dallas Center-Grimes High School enrolls 35.9% of Grimes's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Grimes's list includes 2 elementary, 1 middle, and 1 high-school campus, plus 1 combined-grade record. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 15-point gap between North Ridge Elementary and Dc-G Oak View shows the range hidden by Grimes's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 71%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
59th percentile
Teacher staffing
37th percentile

Dallas Center-Grimes High School accounts for 35.9% of all Grimes public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Grimes-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Grimes school enrollment varies 2.6× across entities

Grimes school enrollment ranges from 412 students (lowest) to 1,073 students (highest), a spread of 661 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Grimes operates one school district — a single-district system

Grimes's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Grimes student-teacher ratio is 16.6:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Grimes is typically wider than the Grimes-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. North Ridge Elementary 51
2. Heritage Elementary 45
3. South Prairie Elementary 44
4. Dallas Center-Grimes High School 37
5. Dc-G Oak View 36

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Grimes

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 South Prairie Elementary 47.8/100
  2. 2 Heritage Elementary 33.9/100
  3. 3 Dallas Center-Grimes High School 25.6/100
  4. 4 Dc-G Oak View 25.2/100
  5. 5 North Ridge Elementary 18.7/100

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Which Grimes school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

North Ridge Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Grimes schools in this federal-data comparison at 51/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Grimes, IA? ▼

Grimes has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,988 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.6:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.