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MOC-Floyd Valley Elementary School
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Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 90 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 88 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 88% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 77% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MOC-Floyd Valley Elementary School
MOC-Floyd Valley Elementary School operates as a roomy K-5 school in Orange City, Iowa, operated by MOC-Floyd Valley Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 672 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so MOC-Floyd Valley Elementary School sits 107% above that benchmark.
MOC-Floyd Valley Comm School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,495 students. MOC-Floyd Valley Elementary School is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, MOC-Floyd Valley Elementary School records that 70% of the student body identifies as White; the rest reads as 26% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 85% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.
On the resource side, MOC-Floyd Valley Elementary School lists 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 31% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Sioux County's rate of about 45%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, MOC-Floyd Valley Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Iowa schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 76.7%; actual is 88.2%, +11.5 points clear of the demographic baseline.
In the area at large, Sioux County reports that median household earnings sit near $86,098, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Sioux County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,321 students), of which MOC-Floyd Valley Elementary School is one.
The closest other public school is MOC-Floyd Valley High School, roughly 0.9 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, MOC-Floyd Valley Elementary School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 78.8%.
MOC-Floyd Valley Elementary School operates from an outlying location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MOC-Floyd Valley Elementary School has ticked up 52%, going from 442 students in 2018 to 672 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 19% to 26% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.
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Related schools
- MOC-Floyd Valley High SchoolHigh · 486 students
- MOC-Floyd Valley Middle SchoolMiddle · 337 students
- Hospers Elementary SchoolCombined
- MOC-Floyd Valley High School0.9 mi · 486
- MOC-Floyd Valley Middle School1.2 mi · 337
- Kinsey Elementary School8.6 mi · 483
- Sioux Center High School9.1 mi · 518
- Sioux Center Middle School9.4 mi · 367
- Sioux Center Preschool9.4 mi · 49