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Public school / Primary

Big Creek Elementary

Polk City, Iowa

NCES ID
192091002314
District
North Polk Comm School District
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Big Creek Elementary is a public primary school in Polk City, Iowa, run by North Polk Comm School District. It enrols 354 students — the 57864th largest of 1,337 public schools in Iowa.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

354students

57864th nationally, tied with 147

Teachers

23.0FTE

57824th nationally, tied with 2,357

Students per teacher

15.4students

51310th nationally, tied with 952

Free or reduced-price lunch

9.3%percent

83541st nationally, tied with 42

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within North Polk Comm School District

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1North Polk High School647 students
  2. 2North Polk Middle School455 students
  3. 3North Polk West Elementary School426 students
  4. 4Big Creek Elementary354 students
  5. 5North Polk Central Elementary School342 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Iowa median across 1,337 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−1.1%
  • Teachers0.0%
  • Students per teacher+8.5%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−76.5%
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Where this sits

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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.