East High School
Des Moines, IA · High School · Grades 9-12
East High School is a high school in Des Moines, IA with 2,040 students enrolled and a 30% proficiency rate. Part of Des Moines Independent Comm School District. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
East High School is a high school located in Des Moines, Iowa. The school serves 2,040 students in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 21.7:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 30% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading. The school reports a 71% graduation rate.
79% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating the school serves a predominantly low-income community.
East High School is part of the Des Moines Independent Comm School District in Iowa. The school receives Title I federal funding.
How This School Compares
East High School has 2,040 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Des Moines Independent Comm School District (513 students). Its 30% proficiency rate is 10 percentage points below the district average of 39%. Compared to the Iowa state average of 53%, the school performs 24 points lower. The 21.7:1 student-teacher ratio is above the national average of 16:1.
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Frequently Asked Questions
East High School has 2,040 students enrolled in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 21.7:1.
According to EDFacts data, 30% of students at East High School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
East High School has a 71% graduation rate, measuring the percentage of students who graduate within four years.
East High School is part of the Des Moines Independent Comm School District in Des Moines, Iowa. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.