Cleveland Elementary - 14

Cleveland Elementary - 14 is one of the sprawling elementary schools in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, overseen by Sioux Falls School District 49-5, with 465 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 128% larger than the state mean of about 204.

Sioux Falls School District 49-5 comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 25,060 students; Cleveland Elementary - 14 is among them.

In terms of who attends, Cleveland Elementary - 14 logs that the largest single group is Black at 36%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 24% White, 21% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 5% Native American. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 7%.

In terms of school funding signals, Cleveland Elementary - 14 lists 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.4:1. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Minnehaha County's rate of about 42%.

After controlling for student poverty, Cleveland Elementary - 14 tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 29.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 22.1%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Minnehaha County indicate median household income runs about $76,880, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Minnehaha County's 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,919 students), Cleveland Elementary - 14 is one campus in the mix.

Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Cleveland Elementary - 14 comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 33.9%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cleveland Elementary - 14 has declined 15%, going from 546 students in 2018 to 465 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 13% to 21% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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