Irving Elementary School

As a high-enrollment K-5 school in Sioux City, Iowa, Irving Elementary School enrolls 605 students from grades K through 5, operated by Sioux City Comm School District. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so Irving Elementary School sits 86% above that benchmark.

Irving Elementary School is one of 21 schools operated by Sioux City Comm School District, a district that serves 14,189 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Irving Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (86%). The remainder reads as 8% Black, 3% White. By comparison, Woodbury County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Irving Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Woodbury County's rate of about 60%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Irving Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 45.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 46.9%.

In the broader community, Woodbury County reports that median household income runs about $73,658, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Woodbury County's 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,210 students), Irving Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Irving Preschool, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Irving Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Irving Elementary School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 51.7%.

Irving Elementary School operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Irving Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 19% since 2018, when it stood at 749 (now 605). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 71% to 86% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.

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