Leeds Elementary School

Set in Sioux City, Iowa, Leeds Elementary School is a roomy elementary campus, one of the schools within Sioux City Comm School District. It enrolls 593 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so Leeds Elementary School sits 82% above that benchmark.

Across the 21 schools in Sioux City Comm School District (14,189 students total), Leeds Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Leeds Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White at 44%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 34% Hispanic, 10% Black, 7% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 71%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 76% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Woodbury County (around 60%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Leeds Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Iowa public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 53.8%; Leeds Elementary School posts 65.4%, +11.6 points above that line.

Around the school, census data for Woodbury County shows median household earnings sit near $73,658, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Leeds Elementary School is one of 37 public schools in Woodbury County (combined enrollment of about 18,210 students).

Nearest neighbor: North Middle School, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Leeds Elementary School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 57.7%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Leeds Elementary School's enrollment has fell 16% since 2018, when it stood at 707 (now 593). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 57% to 44%. Class-load math has fell: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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