Enrollment
305
Elementary
DISTRICT 386 · STATE 204
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RAPID CITY AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT 51-4·NCES 465982000538
Black Hawk Elementary - 03
7108 Seeaire St, Black Hawk, SD 57718 · (605) 787-6701 · Meade County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL305 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 6% 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.
- FBeats 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
15.0:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.6:1 · STATE 15.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
34%
104 students
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 42%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 36 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 55 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 41 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 66 | 22% |
| Grade 4 | 49 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 58 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (36) is 38% smaller than its 5th grade class (58).
Student demographics
42%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · 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
41.2%
SD avg 50.3% . +15.9pp since 2022
Math
32.7%
SD avg 47.5% . +10.5pp since 2022
What this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all South Dakota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 47. Reading and writing scores are up about 16 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 11 points.
SD Smarter Balanced results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.2% | 32.7% |
| 2023-24 | 31.0% | 27.2% |
| 2022-23 | 25.3% | 22.2% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of SD schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
29.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.0%
based on SD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-19.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 49% typical for South Dakota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Black Hawk Elementary - 03
Black Hawk Elementary - 03's state test result (29.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Hawk Elementary - 03 this school | 305 | 34.1% | 29.9% |
| Custer Elementary - 02 Custer | 269 | 34.2% | 57.4% |
| Beresford Elementary - 02 Beresford | 273 | 28.9% | 54.9% |
| South Canyon Elementary - 15 Rapid City | 274 | 30.7% | 44.2% |
| McKinley Early Childhood Center - 06 Watertown | 296 | 38.2% | N/A |
| Stewart Elementary - 05 Yankton | 271 | 38.0% | 45.6% |
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 Black Hawk Elementary - 03 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In South Dakota | In Meade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.9% | #168 of 193 | N/A |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.7% | #170 of 199 ▲ 7 | N/A |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.2% | #146 of 202 ▲ 29 | N/A |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 305 | #93 of 331 | #3 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.0:1 | #88 of 131 | N/A |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.0% | #67 of 131 | N/A |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 34.1% | #109 of 209 | N/A |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.6% | #12 of 87 | N/A |
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
305
-80 (-21%) vs 2020
-48% since 1990-91, when it was 582
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
was 16.0:1
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 | 305 | 20.3 | 15.0:1 | 34% (104) |
| 2023-24 | 340 | 21.3 | 16.0:1 | 25% (85) |
| 2022-23 | 370 | 24.5 | 15.1:1 | 34% (126) |
| 2020-21 | 385 | 24 | 16.0:1 | 37% (143) |
| 2017-18 | 394 | 24.3 | 16.2:1 | 30% (120) |
| 2015-16 | 450 | 26 | 17.3:1 | 45% (202) |
| 2010-11 | 390 | 24 | 16.3:1 | 45% (174) |
| 2000-01 | 401 | 25 | 16.0:1 | 28% (114) |
| 1990-91 | 582 | 29 | 20.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Black Hawk Elementary - 03.
Since 2017-18: students down 23% (394 to 305); teachers down 16% (24.3 to 20.3).
About Black Hawk Elementary - 03
Black Hawk Elementary - 03 is a medium-sized elementary school in Black Hawk, South Dakota, administered by Rapid City Area School District 51-4. The student body numbers 305 students, from kindergarten through 5. An average school in this group (elementary schools in South Dakota) has about 204 students.
Rapid City Area School District 51-4 runs Black Hawk Elementary - 03 along with 25 other schools, enrolling 12,610 students in total.
At 75%, White students outnumber all other groups at Black Hawk Elementary - 03 combined. It is also 11% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, and 5% Native American. Meade County's residents are about 86% White, 12 points above the school's share. By the diversity index, Black Hawk Elementary - 03 comes in at 42%.
The school has about 15.0 students per teacher and 20.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in South Dakota average about 15.4:1, a similar figure. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 34%. Across public schools in Meade County, the average is about the same, 32%.
Black Hawk Elementary - 03 is graded D by allk12, scoring above 6% of South Dakota public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Black Hawk Elementary - 03 is -19.1 points, in the bottom 10% of South Dakota. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 29.9%, and the predicted rate is 49.0%.
Meade County has about 30,546 residents, and median household income is about $74,790, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 28% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. Federal data list 16 public schools in Meade County, with a combined enrollment of about 3,395.
The school nearest to Black Hawk Elementary - 03 is Stagebarn Middle School - 10, at a distance of about 3.8 miles. Within five miles of Black Hawk Elementary - 03, there are 2 other public schools. Black Hawk Elementary - 03 is 5th of 6 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Under the NCES locale system, Black Hawk Elementary - 03 is Suburb: Small.
The number of students dropped from 385 to 305 over 4 years. The number of students per teacher fell from 16.0 to 15.0 over 4 years.
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Meade County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
30,546
Census ACS
Median income
$74,790
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
16
3,395 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Rapid City Area School District 51-4
- Central High School - 41High · 1,998 students
- Stevens High School - 42High · 1,771 students
- South Middle School - 36Middle · 618 students
- Southwest Middle School - 38Middle · 614 students
- East Middle School - 30Middle · 613 students
- Valley View Elementary - 13Elementary · 605 students
Other Black Hawk Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 5 states are named Black Hawk Elementary. Black Hawk Elementary - 03 is the 3rd largest of the 6.
- Black Hawk Elementary SchoolGlendale Hts, IL · 576 students
- BLACK HAWK ELEM.KAHOKA, MO · 342 students
- Black Hawk Elementary SchoolBurlington, IA · 305 students
- Black Hawk Elementary SchoolSpringfield, IL · 234 students
- Black Hawk ElementarySouth Wayne, WI · 163 students
Nearby schools
- Stagebarn Middle School - 103.8 mi · 432
- Pinedale Elementary - 114.8 mi · 377
- South Canyon Elementary - 155.0 mi · 274
- Stevens High School - 425.6 mi · 1,771
- West Middle School - 375.7 mi · 591
- Horace Mann Elementary - 075.8 mi · 274
Frequently asked questions
About Black Hawk Elementary - 03How large is Black Hawk Elementary - 03?
Black Hawk Elementary - 03 enrolls approximately 305 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Black Hawk Elementary - 03 serve?
Black Hawk Elementary - 03 serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Black Hawk Elementary - 03 have?
Black Hawk Elementary - 03 employs 20 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.0:1.
How diverse is Black Hawk Elementary - 03?
Black Hawk Elementary - 03 reports a student body of 75% White, 11% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Black Hawk Elementary - 03 public or private?
Black Hawk Elementary - 03 is a public K-12 school, overseen by Rapid City Area School District 51-4.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.