22 public K-12 schools in Sioux City from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Sioux City has more public-school enrollment than 88% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Sioux City sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.
13 of Sioux City's 22 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.
The 35-point gap between Riverside Elementary School and East High School shows the range hidden by Sioux City's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.
Sioux City school enrollment ranges from 75 students (lowest) to 1,529 students (highest), a spread of 1,454 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Sioux City's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Sioux City is typically wider than the Sioux City-aggregate figure suggests.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Riverside Elementary School | 59 |
| 2. | Sunnyside Elementary School | 58 |
| 3. | Clark Early Childhood Center | 51 |
| 4. | Perry Creek Elementary School | 46 |
| 5. | Hunt Elementary School | 45 |
| 6. | Irving Elementary School | 44 |
| 7. | Nodland Elementary School | 43 |
| 8. | Morningside Elementary | 42 |
| 9. | Bryant Elementary School | 40 |
| 10. | V.I.B.E. Academy (Virtual Institute for Brighter Education) | 40 |
| 11. | Unity Elementary School | 39 |
| 12. | North Middle School | 38 |
| 13. | Spalding Park Elementary | 38 |
| 14. | Liberty Elementary School | 38 |
| 15. | Leeds Elementary School | 38 |
| 16. | Loess Hills Elementary | 36 |
| 17. | West High School | 35 |
| 18. | East Middle School | 33 |
| 19. | West Middle School | 33 |
| 20. | North High School | 28 |
| 21. | East High School | 24 |
| 22. | Irving Preschool | - |
Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.
Riverside Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Sioux City schools in this federal-data comparison at 59/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Sioux City has 22 public schools with a total enrollment of 14,521 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.8:1.
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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.
