Reporting Year:  2024

West Des Moines Comm School District

Heartland AEA

Educator Effectiveness

What percentage of public school teachers are inexperienced, teaching out-of-field or ineffective?

Inexperienced teachers are educators who have an initial two year license.

Out of field teachers are those operating on a provisional license because they do not meet the licensure requirements in a particular content area.

Ineffective teachers are teachers who do not meet the Iowa Teaching Standards.

The quartile tables show schools within the district broken into quartiles by free or reduced lunch eligibility status (High Poverty: schools among top 25% of all Iowa public schools in FRL percentage; Low Poverty: schools among bottom 25%). The purpose of this analysis is to examine the differences between high and low poverty schools within the district to ensure equity exists. Note that it's possible the district has no schools that are either high poverty or low poverty.

Public School Teachers with Initial License
or Out of Field Teachers by Poverty Status
Total Teachers Teachers with
Initial License
% Teachers with
Initial License
Teachers with
Out of Field License
% Teachers with
Out of Field License
All Schools
All Teachers 644 69 10.7 21 3.3
High Poverty 0 0 0.0 0 0.0
Low Poverty 375 45 12.0 10 2.7

Number and Percent of Ineffective Public School Teachers
by Poverty Status
Total Teachers
Evaluated
Total Teachers
who met Iowa
teaching standards
% Teachers who met
Iowa teaching standards
Total Teachers
who did not met
Iowa teaching standards
% Total Teachers
who did not met
Iowa teaching standards
All Schools
All Teachers 309 306 99.0 3 1.0
High Poverty 0 0 0.0 0 0.0
Low Poverty 176 175 99.4 1 0.6