This database was last updated in October 2018, and its latest data is from the 2015-16 school year. Researchers can find more recent data at the U.S. Department of Education’s Civil Rights Data Collection site.
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Des Moines Independent Community School District
2100 Fleur Drive, Des Moines, IA 50321
33.1K Students | 2,439 Teachers | 62 Schools
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District Composition
Opportunity
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AP Course Composition
Gifted & Talented Composition
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Students
58% Nonwhite Students
75% Students Who Get Free/Reduced-Price Lunch
81% High School Graduation Rate
23% High School Students Taking at Least One AP Course
2,126 students
8% Students in a Gifted & Talented Program
2,502 students
21% Students Taking the SAT or ACT
1,891 students
19% Students Enrolled in Physics
1,696 students
7% Students Enrolled in Advanced Math
659 students
24% Students Enrolled in in Geometry
2,184 students
30% Students Enrolled in Biology
2,803 students
13% Students Enrolled in Chemistry
1,193 students
2% Students Enrolled in Calculus
144 students
< 1% Students Enrolled in 8th-Grade Algebra
328 students
Teachers & Resources
13.6 Students for Every Teacher
15% Inexperienced Teachers
50% Chronically Absent Teachers
(Missed more than 10 days in a 180-day school year)
11.4 Average Number of AP Courses per School
2.4 Social Workers, Psychologists & Counselors per 1000 students
0 Schools With Credit Recovery Programs
6 Schools With Dual Enrollment Programs
55 Schools With Gifted & Talented Programs
0 Schools With International Baccalaureates
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Discipline
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Out-of-School Suspension Composition
Expulsion Composition
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Students
1,947 Total Out-of-School Suspended Students
6% of all students in this district
1,165 Total In-School Suspended Students
4% of all students in this district
64 Total Expelled Students
< 1% of all students in this district
Outcomes & Resources
60 Average Days Missed to Out-of-School Suspension, per School
1.3Average Number of Days of an Out-of-School Suspension
2 Total Arrests
263 Total Referrals to Law Enforcement
4 Average Referrals to Law Enforcement, per School
1 Average Transfers to Alternative Schools, per School
0.8 Security Guard or Law Enforcement Officer per 1000 students
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Sources & Notes
Sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, Stanford University's Center for Education Policy Analysis, EDFacts, U.S. Department of Education’s Common Core of Data. Maps courtesy of Mapbox Community. Read our methodology →
Notes: The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights occasionally updates the underlying dataset. ProPublica may update the interactive’s data in response.
Disparity scores are not available if there are too few students in a specific racial group to make a statistically significant calculation. They are also not available if data about a particular racial group was not reported. Some schools or districts reported an overcount of students in a disparity category (such as suspensions or AP courses) when compared with the total enrollment of that particular student group. In such cases, we also omit the disparity score.
Due to rounding, demographic breakdowns in composition charts may add up to more than 100 percent.
The racial categories we show data for are: Black, Hispanic, White, Asian/Pacific Islander or Native Hawaiian, Two or More Races, and Native American or Alaska Native. In some cases, we abbreviate the last three of these racial groups to Asian, Two+ Races, and Native Am.
Due to a technical issue with the Office for Civil Rights’ collection of data on sworn law enforcement officers in schools, the data for security staff may be an undercount.
As with any self-reported data, there may be errors in the federal Civil Rights Data Collection. Though districts are required to ensure the accuracy of their data, some may still report incorrect figures. Additionally, for some variables, the CRDC rounds the number of students for privacy reasons. In these cases, groups of students may represent a slight undercount or overcount.
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Data specific to high school testing or high school level courses (including geometry, biology, calculus, AP enrollment, SAT testing rates, etc.) is calculated out of total high school enrollment, while data for other classes (such as eighth-grade algebra) is calculated out of total student enrollment. Read more about our data in our methodology →