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Adventure Elementary - 10
Test scores
SD Smarter Balanced 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 81 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 82 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all South Dakota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 47. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 59% typical for South Dakota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 21 points, placing it in South Dakota's top 10%.
About Adventure Elementary - 10
Adventure Elementary - 10 is a primary school of big scale in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, one of the schools within Harrisburg School District 41-2, educateing 440 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 116% above the state mean of about 204.
Across the 11 schools in Harrisburg School District 41-2 (6,222 students total), Adventure Elementary - 10 accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, Adventure Elementary - 10 lists that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 4% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 3% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Lincoln County as a whole.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Adventure Elementary - 10 records 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting Adventure Elementary - 10 higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 10% of students at Adventure Elementary - 10 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Lincoln County's rate of about 18%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Adventure Elementary - 10 sits in the top 10% of South Dakota schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 59.0%; actual is 80.4%, +21.4 points clear of the demographic baseline.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Lincoln County put median household income runs about $99,166, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lincoln County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,530 students), Adventure Elementary - 10 is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Endeavor Elementary - 07, around 1.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Adventure Elementary - 10. On composite proficiency, Adventure Elementary - 10 comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 51.4%.
The campus sits in a rural setting.
On the community side, posts here usually surface around school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.
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