Big Creek Elementary

Big Creek Elementary operates as a moderately sized primary school in Polk City, Iowa, part of North Polk Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 357 students spanning grades 3 through 5.

Across the 5 schools in North Polk Comm School District (2,309 students total), Big Creek Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Big Creek Elementary shows that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 76% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Big Creek Elementary has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.3:1. The state averages about 13.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 10% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Polk County (around 49%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Big Creek Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 87.0%, the actual is 83.3%, a residual of -3.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Polk County indicate median household income runs about $83,576, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Big Creek Elementary is one of 137 public schools in Polk County (combined enrollment of about 77,436 students).

Nearest neighbor: North Polk West Elementary School, around 1.1 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Big Creek Elementary comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 81.4%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

On allk12, members of the Big Creek Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.