Sioux Center Intermediate School

As a low-enrollment K-5 school in Sioux Center, Iowa, Sioux Center Intermediate School caters to 242 students from grades 4 through 5, one of the schools within Sioux Center Comm School District. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so Sioux Center Intermediate School sits 26% smaller than that benchmark.

Sioux Center Comm School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,659 students; Sioux Center Intermediate School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Sioux Center Intermediate School reports that 48% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 47% Hispanic. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 85%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Sioux Center Intermediate School has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.4:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 55% of students at Sioux Center Intermediate School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Sioux County's rate of about 45%.

After controlling for student poverty, Sioux Center Intermediate School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 64.7%; this one delivers 69.8%.

Around the school, census data for Sioux County shows median household earnings sit near $86,098, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 Sioux Center Intermediate School is one.

Sioux Center Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Sioux Center Intermediate School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 80.2%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

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