Morningside Elementary

As a roomy elementary campus in Sioux City, Iowa, Morningside Elementary educates 645 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under Sioux City Comm School District. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so Morningside Elementary sits 98% bigger than that benchmark.

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

On the student-mix side, Morningside Elementary reports that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 27% Hispanic, 12% Black, 7% multiracial, 4% Pacific Islander. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 71%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. The state averages about 13.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 63% of students at Morningside Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Morningside Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.5%; this one delivers 63.3%.

In the area at large, Woodbury County reports that the typical household earns roughly $73,658 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Morningside Elementary is one of 37 public schools in Woodbury County (combined enrollment of about 18,210 students).

The closest other public school is Sunnyside Elementary School, roughly 1.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Morningside Elementary comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 64.7%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Morningside Elementary's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 641 (now 645). The White share of enrollment contracted from 68% to 49% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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