West Middle School

West Middle School operates as a big 6-8 campus in Sioux City, Iowa, run under Sioux City Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 826 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 107% larger than the typical public school in Iowa, which averages around 400 students.

West Middle School is one of 21 schools operated by Sioux City Comm School District, a district that hosts 14,189 students overall.

Demographically, West Middle School logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 27% White, 8% multiracial, 7% Black, 5% Native American. By comparison, Woodbury County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.9:1. The state averages around 15.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 79% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Woodbury County's rate of about 60%.

After controlling for student poverty, West Middle School ranks in the top 10% of Iowa public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 52.5%; West Middle School posts 62.7%, +10.2 points above that line.

In the area at large, Woodbury County reports that the typical household earns roughly $73,658 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Woodbury County runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,210 students), of which West Middle School is one.

West High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around West Middle School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), West Middle School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 58.8%.

West Middle School operates from a rural location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 13%: 950 students in 2018 compared to 826 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 44% to 27% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.

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