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Enrollment
632
Elementary
DISTRICT 466 · STATE 204
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SIOUX FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT 49-5·NCES 466627000770
Anne Sullivan Elementary - 20
3701 E 3rd St, Sioux Falls, SD 57103 · (605) 367-6084 · Minnehaha County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL632 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 30% of South Dakota public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded South Dakota public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 15.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
527 students
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 42%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 70 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 89 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 83 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 113 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 90 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 82 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 105 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (89) is 15% smaller than its 5th grade class (105).
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 53% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
SD Smarter Balanced 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
32.0%
SD avg 50.3% . -1.6pp since 2022
Math
25.4%
SD avg 47.5% . -3.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 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 2 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 3 points.
SD Smarter Balanced results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.0% | 25.4% |
| 2023-24 | 33.5% | 26.9% |
| 2022-23 | 33.6% | 28.4% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SD Smarter Balanced. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
29.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
28.9%
based on SD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 29% typical for South Dakota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among South Dakota's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Anne Sullivan Elementary - 20
Anne Sullivan Elementary - 20's state test result (29.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anne Sullivan Elementary - 20 this school | 632 | 83.4% | 29.6% |
| Cleveland Elementary - 14 Sioux Falls | 465 | 82.6% | 22.1% |
| Terry Redlin Elementary - 11 Sioux Falls | 412 | 85.2% | 20.5% |
| Elementary Immersion Center - 43 Sioux Falls | 106 | 100.0% | N/A |
| Hawthorne Elementary - 56 Sioux Falls | 443 | 100.0% | 16.9% |
| Garfield Elementary - 19 Sioux Falls | 574 | 88.3% | 20.4% |
Matched among South Dakota elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Anne Sullivan Elementary - 20 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In South Dakota | In Minnehaha County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.6% | #170 of 193 | #29 of 35 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.4% | #180 of 199 ▼ 2 | #30 of 35 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.0% | #167 of 202 ▼ 3 | #27 of 35 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 632 | #10 of 331 | #9 of 39 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #68 of 131 | #8 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.8% | #7 of 131 | #7 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.4% | #31 of 209 | #8 of 36 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.6% | #35 of 36 | #12 of 13 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
632
+39 (+7%) vs 2020
+4% since 2000-01, when it was 608
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 14.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 632 | 45.3 | 13.9:1 | 83% (527) |
| 2023-24 | 627 | 46.5 | 13.5:1 | 67% (417) |
| 2022-23 | 623 | 40.3 | 15.5:1 | 69% (429) |
| 2020-21 | 593 | 42 | 14.1:1 | 76% (449) |
| 2017-18 | 628 | 42.9 | 14.6:1 | 63% (393) |
| 2015-16 | 703 | 44 | 16.0:1 | 68% (481) |
| 2010-11 | 582 | 48 | 12.1:1 | 55% (319) |
| 2000-01 | 608 | 36 | 16.9:1 | 32% (195) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Anne Sullivan Elementary - 20.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (628 to 632); teachers up 6% (42.9 to 45.3).
About Anne Sullivan Elementary - 20
Anne Sullivan Elementary - 20 is classified as an elementary school. It is located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Total enrollment is 632 students, and the grades served are pre-K through 5. It has 210% more students than the average for elementary schools in South Dakota (about 204).
Sioux Falls School District 49-5 enrolls 25,060 students, and its 44 schools include Anne Sullivan Elementary - 20.
The student body at Anne Sullivan Elementary - 20 has no majority group. Black students lead at 45%. Next come 18% Asian, 14% White, 13% Hispanic, and 4% multiracial. The county population is about 7% Black. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 72%.
Classroom staffing at Anne Sullivan Elementary - 20 totals 45.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 13.9:1. The average for elementary schools in South Dakota is 15.4:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Anne Sullivan Elementary - 20 is about 83%. Across public schools in Minnehaha County, the average is 42%.
On the allk12 Grade, Anne Sullivan Elementary - 20 lands at C, ahead of 30% of South Dakota public elementary schools.
A school with Anne Sullivan Elementary - 20's lunch-eligibility share in South Dakota is predicted to score 28.9%. Anne Sullivan Elementary - 20 scores 29.6%, within a point of that line.
In Minnehaha County, the median household earns about $76,880 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 35%, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Minnehaha County has 83 public schools with about 34,919 students, including Anne Sullivan Elementary - 20.
Anne Sullivan Elementary - 20's closest public school neighbor is Washington High School - 01, about 0.4 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 8 schools in the immediate area with test results, Anne Sullivan Elementary - 20 ranks 4th on average proficiency.
Anne Sullivan Elementary - 20 falls in the City: Mid-size locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 632, compared with 593 in 2020-21.
The allk12 page for Anne Sullivan Elementary - 20 lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Minnehaha County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
203,289
Census ACS
Median income
$76,880
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
83
34,919 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Sioux Falls School District 49-5
- Lincoln High School - 02High · 1,954 students
- Jefferson High School - 67High · 1,888 students
- Washington High School - 01High · 1,819 students
- Roosevelt High School - 03High · 1,785 students
- Memorial Middle School - 04Middle · 1,133 students
- Edison Middle School - 06Middle · 937 students
Other schools in Sioux Falls
- Lincoln High School - 02High · 1,954 students
- Jefferson High School - 67High · 1,888 students
- Washington High School - 01High · 1,819 students
- Roosevelt High School - 03High · 1,785 students
- Memorial Middle School - 04Middle · 1,133 students
- Edison Middle School - 06Middle · 937 students
Other Anne Sullivan Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Anne Sullivan Elementary. Anne Sullivan Elementary - 20 is the largest of the 2.
- Anne Sullivan Elementary SchoolProspect Heights, IL · 329 students
Nearby schools
- Washington High School - 010.4 mi · 1,819
- Cleveland Elementary - 141.1 mi · 465
- Terry Redlin Elementary - 111.3 mi · 412
- Eugene Field A+ Elementary - 161.4 mi · 444
- Laura B. Anderson Elementary - 101.5 mi · 291
- Whittier Middle School - 081.7 mi · 675
Frequently asked questions
About Anne Sullivan Elementary - 20How large is Anne Sullivan Elementary - 20?
Anne Sullivan Elementary - 20 enrolls approximately 632 students in grades PK-05.
Is Anne Sullivan Elementary - 20 an elementary, middle, or high school?
Anne Sullivan Elementary - 20 is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Anne Sullivan Elementary - 20 have?
Anne Sullivan Elementary - 20 employs 45 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Anne Sullivan Elementary - 20?
Student demographics at Anne Sullivan Elementary - 20 are roughly 14% White, 13% Hispanic, 45% Black, 18% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Anne Sullivan Elementary - 20 public or private?
Anne Sullivan Elementary - 20 is a public K-12 school, overseen by Sioux Falls School District 49-5.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.