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What's something East Middle School does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
1,076
Middle
DISTRICT 1,013 · STATE 400
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SIOUX CITY COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 192640001505
East Middle School
5401 Lorraine Ave, Sioux City, IA 51106 · (712) 274-4030 · Woodbury County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,076 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 60% of Iowa public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Iowa public middle schools
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
72 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.5:1 · STATE 15.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
62%
672 students
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 41%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 391 | 36% |
| Grade 7 | 356 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 329 | 31% |
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 48% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
75.2%
IA avg 73.6% . +1.9pp since 2023
Math
70.4%
IA avg 70.9% . +1.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 75.2% | 70.4% |
| 2023-24 | 73.3% | 68.5% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: ISASP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
71.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.7%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 61% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 11 points, placing it in Iowa's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like East Middle School
East Middle School's state test result (71.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Middle School this school | 1,076 | 62.5% | 71.6% |
| Woodrow Wilson Middle School Council Bluffs | 855 | 58.9% | 58.1% |
| Brody Middle School Des Moines | 641 | 71.3% | 51.3% |
| South Tama County Middle School Toledo | 413 | 62.7% | 61.1% |
| Fort Dodge Middle School Fort Dodge | 765 | 55.3% | 61.1% |
| Susan Clark Junior High Muscatine | 544 | 49.4% | 69.3% |
Matched among Iowa middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where East Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Woodbury County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.6% | #147 of 224 | N/A |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 70.4% | #158 of 224 ▼ 4 | N/A |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.2% | #145 of 224 ▲ 13 | N/A |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,076 | #8 of 246 | #2 of 7 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #113 of 180 | N/A |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.3% | #23 of 180 | N/A |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 62.5% | #27 of 237 | #3 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.8% | #58 of 61 | N/A |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,076
-33 (-3%) vs 2020
-3% since 1990-91, when it was 1,112
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 17.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,076 | 72.4 | 14.9:1 | 62% (672) |
| 2023-24 | 1,036 | 72.7 | 14.3:1 | 64% (662) |
| 2022-23 | 1,067 | 73.9 | 14.4:1 | 65% (690) |
| 2020-21 | 1,109 | 64 | 17.3:1 | 64% (715) |
| 2017-18 | 1,067 | 61.8 | 17.3:1 | 57% (605) |
| 2015-16 | 1,035 | 70 | 14.8:1 | 60% (621) |
| 2010-11 | 1,041 | 69 | 15.1:1 | 45% (466) |
| 2000-01 | 886 | 76 | 11.7:1 | 27% (240) |
| 1990-91 | 1,112 | 70 | 15.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for East Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (1,067 to 1,076); teachers up 17% (61.8 to 72.4).
About East Middle School
East Middle School is a large middle school in Iowa, located in Sioux City. The school enrolls 1,076 students in grades 6 through 8. Across middle schools in Iowa, the average enrollment is about 400.
East Middle School is run by Sioux City Comm School District, whose 21 schools enroll 14,189 students.
The biggest share of students at East Middle School, 47%, is White. Beyond that, enrollment is 32% Hispanic, 8% Black, 6% multiracial, and 4% Pacific Islander. In Woodbury County overall, about 71% of residents are White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, East Middle School scores 66%.
Its staff includes 72.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 14.9 students per teacher. That is in line with the 15.2:1 average for middle schools in Iowa. Roughly 62% of students at East Middle School can receive free or reduced-price lunch. The figure for public schools in Woodbury County is close, at 60%.
Among Iowa public middle schools, East Middle School outscored 60%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
Test results at East Middle School are 10.9 points above what its student poverty level predicts. The average proficiency rate across its state test results is 71.6%, compared with a predicted 60.7%, which ranks in the top 10% in Iowa.
The county, Woodbury County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $73,658, about 24% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. The county has 37 public schools and about 18,210 students.
East Middle School is about 0.2 miles from Sunnyside Elementary School, its nearest public school. East Middle School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 60.9% on proficiency, and East Middle School is above that at 71.6%.
The federal government classifies East Middle School's location as City: Small.
The school's student count decreased 3% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. The number of students per teacher dropped from 17.3 to 14.9 over 4 years.
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Woodbury County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
106,247
Census ACS
Median income
$73,658
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
37
18,210 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Sioux City Comm School District
- North High SchoolHigh · 1,529 students
- East High SchoolHigh · 1,495 students
- West High SchoolHigh · 1,308 students
- North Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,136 students
- West Middle SchoolMiddle · 826 students
- Spalding Park ElementaryElementary · 683 students
Other schools in Sioux City
- North High SchoolHigh · 1,529 students
- East High SchoolHigh · 1,495 students
- West High SchoolHigh · 1,308 students
- North Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,136 students
- West Middle SchoolMiddle · 826 students
- Spalding Park ElementaryElementary · 683 students
Other East Middle schools
17 other US public schools in 11 states are named East Middle. East Middle School is the 2nd largest of the 18.
- EAST MIDDLE SCHOOLBRENTWOOD, NY · 1,108 students
- East Middle SchoolBraintree, MA · 999 students
- East Middle SchoolTRAVERSE CITY, MI · 829 students
- East Middle SchoolGreat Falls, MT · 764 students
- East Middle SchoolPLYMOUTH, MI · 725 students
Nearby schools
- Sunnyside Elementary School0.2 mi · 244
- East High School0.5 mi · 1,495
- Nodland Elementary School0.6 mi · 249
- Morningside Elementary1.2 mi · 645
- Spalding Park Elementary1.7 mi · 683
- CARDINAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.3 mi · 424
Frequently asked questions
About East Middle SchoolHow many students attend East Middle School?
East Middle School enrolls approximately 1,076 students in grades 06-08.
Is East Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
East Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at East Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at East Middle School is approximately 14.9:1 (72 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at East Middle School?
Student demographics at East Middle School are roughly 47% White, 32% Hispanic, 8% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is East Middle School in?
East Middle School is part of Sioux City Comm School District.
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