That same campus near Sam Wise has the land for an elementary school too.
Any New Iowa High Schools Coming in the Future?
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According to the board’s study, the high school is close to capacity and the district is growing at 1.9 percent a year. Sure looks like Johnston is facing a new high school within 5 to 10 years.
The study analysis presented to the Johnston school board this spring said that the secondary center “faces significant challenges” to keep up with growth and that the projected enrollment at the high school in a few years is 1897 and the “high” capacity is 1850. Middle school also is reaching “low capacity.”
Correct. Part of Alleman's beef is that part of Ankeny's northern development is in the North Polk School District, which is based in Alleman. That district is growing now, mostly due to Ankeny and Polk City, so Alleman is getting more traffic to the school from people who don't pay Alleman taxes.
Yep, those developments will push into Alburnett's district soon. That is going to be the next Waukee situation, Alburnett going from 1A to 5A in a hurry.
I guess it won't be long before Bart's farm is surrounded by subdivisions, if they don't sell first. Loved taking my kids there when they were little.
Yep, they are basically already across the road from Bart's.
Alburnett is already adding on to their school. It would be interesting to see how the growth would be handled from a building standpoint.
Waterloo desperately needs another middle school to take the south part of the city. There's tons of land in Orange Township that would be ideal.
Hoover was built for 550 and there are almost 900 kids there.
But you're right, I think one large high school is the future. The direction the city is growing is just going to make the imbalance between East and West worse. Build a new building at Central and be done with it.
They are still going strong and just built a beautiful new barn post derecho so I highly doubt they would sell.
I have heard that ankeny already owns the land for a 3rd high school and its just north of 36th.
No, it won't affect Ankeny school enrollment. The city's growth jumped over the school boundary with North Polk a decade or so ago. North Polk will probably grow significantly, but so will Ankeny. Ankeny did some demographic studies a few years ago for its strategic planning, and the average of all the possible growth scenarios had its population pushing 130,000 by 2040.
Polk City's future growth may add students to Ankeny schools too. If/when it develops E/SE of its current city limits, most of that is in the Ankeny school district.
There's nothing on the assessor's web site that suggests that. I haven't heard anything about actually owning land, but everything I've heard said it is likely to be on the E/NE side of town.
My office is the Corteva site at the intersection of Alburnett Rd and County Home. We used to have plots where that new subdivision is now. Crazy
And Alburnett put in a new subdivision in 2016-17 and it’s already filled. Time to build more roads/infrastructure
I'm looking thru the 62-page presentation from most recent school board meeting.
Interesting facts
*the largest class in Ankeny schools right now is 9th grade
*Currently 962 seniors and 987 first graders
*Total enrollment up 312 from 3 yrs ago
None of these suggest massive growth of 2010s is continuing.
Demographer now predicting 800 new students in next 5 years (160/yr). A five year span a decade ago saw growth of 2100 (420/yr) a decade ago.
Three Northside elementary buildings will be over capacity in 23-24; a new building on north side is currently being built to relieve that. The Northside 6-7 building will exceed capacity in 2025-26 but district wide won't clear 6-7 capacity until 2029-30.
District wide HS capacity is 3700, demographer projects 3296 in the 2032-33 school year.
My conclusion - Ankeny will not have a third high school within the next decade.
North Polk is exploding. Guessing a lot of people look at the medium size schools and go there, like Ankeny used to be. Then they just all run together over time.
Bondurant is as well. It will be a race between those two between who makes the next jump to 4a/5a. Carlisle possibly in the mix as well.
Norwalk & DC-G already made the jump out of 3A
I’m guessing DCG and Norwalk head to CIML soon and north Polk and BF take their place in little Hawkeye.
Yep my kids are Orange-Hoover-West kids and there desperately needs to either be another middle school or more kids going to Central. The district owns a bunch of land to the north of Orange I believe and that would be a perfect spot for a new building.
The one big high school thing was something that Dr Lindaman had in mind with the renovations going on at Central/WCC. That work is being done with that being where the one big high school would end up being and from what Dr Lindaman was telling me that was in the 10 year facilities plan she had in place before retiring. My kids probably won't see it since my youngest is in 8th but the elementary kids probably will.
