Spalding Park Elementary

Located at 4101 Stone Avenue, in Sioux City, Iowa, Spalding Park Elementary is a roomy primary school that works with 683 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Sioux City Comm School District. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 325 students each, so Spalding Park Elementary sits 110% above that benchmark.

Sioux City Comm School District comprises 21 schools with combined enrollment of 14,189 students; Spalding Park Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Spalding Park Elementary lists that the largest single group is White at 37%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 35% Hispanic, 10% Black, 8% Pacific Islander, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Woodbury County as a whole is about 71% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 64% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Spalding Park Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 60.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 64.1%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Woodbury County put the typical household earns roughly $73,658 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Woodbury County runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,210 students), of which Spalding Park Elementary is one.

Morningside Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Spalding Park Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Spalding Park Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 63.3%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Spalding Park Elementary has increased 8%, going from 630 students in 2018 to 683 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 57% to 37%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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