Park Avenue Elementary School is a public school in Des Moines, Iowa, that teaches kids in grades K–5. The school has between 400 and 420 students and a student-teacher ratio of about 14:1, which is about the same as the average for the district. Park Avenue Elementary has a regular elementary school curriculum, but it also has extra help for English Language Learners and Title I resources to make sure that everyone can get a fair education. The school is not a charter or magnet school at this time. About 25.7% of the students are Hispanic, 23.5% are Black, 37.3% are White, and there are also a few Asian and multiracial students. More than 75% of the students get free or cheap lunch, which means that a lot of them need money. Only 40–44% of students are good at math and 35–39% are good at reading and language arts. This is much lower than the state average. According to public records, the school spends about $16,460 on each student, which is a reasonable amount of money for each student. Park Avenue Elementary is in the Indianola Hills neighborhood of Des Moines. It serves families in a neighborhood where people feel like they belong. Park Avenue Elementary School is known for having students from many different cultures and for being dedicated to helping them, but its test scores show that it needs to work on certain areas and keep up with its teaching.