ARISE Shelter Care - 71

Located at 621 E Presentation St, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, ARISE Shelter Care - 71 is a rural-scale K-12 campus that teaches 4 students (grades K through 12), run under Sioux Falls School District 49-5. Compared to the state average of about 315 students per school, that is 99% leaner than typical.

Sioux Falls School District 49-5 comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 25,060 students; ARISE Shelter Care - 71 is among them.

On the student-mix side, ARISE Shelter Care - 71 logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder is composed of 25% White, 25% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 7% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 2.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.9:1 average.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Minnehaha County) reports that median household earnings sit near $76,880, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Minnehaha County runs 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,919 students), of which ARISE Shelter Care - 71 is one.

Summit Oaks-Residential - 48 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. ARISE Shelter Care - 71's enrollment has fell 33% since 2018, when it stood at 6 (now 4). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 33% to 50%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 2.9:1 today.

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