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Public school / High

West High School

Sioux City, Iowa

NCES ID
192640001533
District
Sioux City Comm School District
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

West High School is a public high school in Sioux City, Iowa, run by Sioux City Comm School District. It enrols 1,252 students — the 5440th 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

1,252students

5440th nationally, tied with 8

Teachers

83.0FTE

4416th nationally, tied with 145

Students per teacher

15.1students

48544th nationally, tied with 918

Free or reduced-price lunch

76.0%percent

25453rd nationally, tied with 87

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 Sioux City 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 High School1,634 students
  2. 2East High School1,495 students
  3. 3West High School1,252 students
  4. 4North Middle School1,224 students
  5. 5East Middle School1,067 students
  6. 6West Middle School864 students
  7. 7Perry Creek Elementary School671 students
  8. 8Morningside Elementary652 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment+249.7%
  • Teachers+260.9%
  • Students per teacher+6.3%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+92.4%
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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.