Prairie Trail Elementary
Ankeny, IA · Elementary School
Prairie Trail Elementary is a elementary school in Ankeny, IA with 571 students enrolled and a 67% proficiency rate. Part of Ankeny Comm School District. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Prairie Trail Elementary is a elementary school located in Ankeny, Iowa. The school serves 571 students. The student-to-teacher ratio is 16.8:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 67% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
7% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Prairie Trail Elementary is part of the Ankeny Comm School District in Iowa.
How This School Compares
Prairie Trail Elementary has 571 students enrolled, making it smaller than the average school in Ankeny Comm School District (750 students). Its 67% proficiency rate is 5 percentage points above the district average of 62%. Compared to the Iowa state average of 53%, the school performs 14 points higher.
Frequently Asked Questions
Prairie Trail Elementary has 571 students enrolled. The student-to-teacher ratio is 16.8:1.
According to EDFacts data, 67% of students at Prairie Trail Elementary meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Prairie Trail Elementary is part of the Ankeny Comm School District in Ankeny, 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.