Ruby Van Meter
A public special education school in Des Moines, Iowa, in Des Moines Independent Comm School District. NCES’s record for 2024–25.
The school in 2024–25
- 109
- Students enrolled
- 21.7
- Teachers, full-time equivalent
- 7871.6% of students
- Eligible for free or reduced-price lunch
- Eligibility, as the state reported it. It is not a count of family income.
- Not reported by the state
- Directly certified for free meals
How this compares
- Students enrolled: 109 in 2024–25
- Larger than 10% of the 95,462 public schools in the fifty states and DC that report an enrollment. Larger than 7% of the 1,314 schools in Iowa that report one.
- Pupils per teacher: 5.0 in 2024–25
- More than 1% of the 91,868 schools reporting both pupils and teachers. Pupils per full-time-equivalent teacher, the school’s own two counts.
The school’s entry
- Status
- Open
- Type
- Special Education School
- Charter
- No
- Grades
- Kindergarten to Grade 12
- Level
- Other
- Locale
- City, midsize
- County
- Polk County
- School lunch program
- Yes under Community Eligibility Option (CEO)
- Virtual instruction
- Supplemental Virtual
- NCES school ID
- 190897002260
Sources
- Common Core of Data (CCD), 2024–25 — National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 25, 2026
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), 2024–25.
Data retrieved