Sioux Center Middle School

Located at 550 9th St NE, in Sioux Center, Iowa, Sioux Center Middle School is a moderately sized intermediate school that hosts 367 students (grades 6 through 8), one of the schools within Sioux Center Comm School District.

Sioux Center Middle School is one of 5 schools operated by Sioux Center Comm School District, a district that teaches 1,659 students overall.

On demographics, Sioux Center Middle School shows that the largest single group is White at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 43% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 85%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.2:1 average. Around 47% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Sioux Center Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 68.2%; this one delivers 77.2%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Sioux County indicate median household income runs about $86,098, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Sioux County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,321 students), Sioux Center Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Sioux Center Intermediate School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Sioux Center Middle School. On composite proficiency, Sioux Center Middle School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 80.3%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sioux Center Middle School has ticked down 8%, going from 398 students in 2018 to 367 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 60% to 52% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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