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Enrollment
465
Elementary
DISTRICT 466 · STATE 204
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SIOUX FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT 49-5·NCES 466627000581
Cleveland Elementary - 14
1000 S Edward Dr, Sioux Falls, SD 57103 · (605) 367-6150 · Minnehaha County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL465 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 10% of South Dakota public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
13.4:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 15.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
384 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 | 85 | 18% |
| Kindergarten | 67 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 76 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 63 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 57 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (67) is 18% larger than its 5th grade class (57).
Student demographics
75%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
25.2%
SD avg 50.3% . +5.4pp since 2022
Math
21.8%
SD avg 47.5% . +2.6pp since 2022
What this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 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 5 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 3 points.
SD Smarter Balanced results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 25.2% | 21.8% |
| 2023-24 | 21.3% | 20.7% |
| 2022-23 | 19.8% | 19.2% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
22.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.2%
based on SD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% 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 Cleveland Elementary - 14
Cleveland Elementary - 14's state test result (22.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Elementary - 14 this school | 465 | 82.6% | 22.1% |
| Terry Redlin Elementary - 11 Sioux Falls | 412 | 85.2% | 20.5% |
| Hawthorne Elementary - 56 Sioux Falls | 443 | 100.0% | 16.9% |
| Garfield Elementary - 19 Sioux Falls | 574 | 88.3% | 20.4% |
| Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66 Sioux Falls | 472 | 61.4% | 36.0% |
| Lowell Elementary - 28 Sioux Falls | 426 | 87.3% | 29.7% |
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 Cleveland Elementary - 14 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In South Dakota | In Minnehaha County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.1% | #178 of 193 | #31 of 35 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.8% | #185 of 199 ▼ 1 | #31 of 35 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.2% | #183 of 202 ▲ 7 | #31 of 35 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 465 | #35 of 331 | #16 of 39 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #51 of 131 | #6 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 75.3% | #5 of 131 | #5 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.6% | #32 of 209 | #9 of 36 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.8% | #32 of 87 | #5 of 16 |
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
465
-72 (-13%) vs 2020
-50% since 1990-91, when it was 936
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 12.8:1
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 | 465 | 34.6 | 13.4:1 | 83% (384) |
| 2023-24 | 479 | 37.9 | 12.6:1 | 76% (362) |
| 2022-23 | 495 | 37.5 | 13.2:1 | 70% (345) |
| 2020-21 | 537 | 42 | 12.8:1 | 75% (404) |
| 2017-18 | 546 | 37.8 | 14.5:1 | 63% (342) |
| 2015-16 | 586 | 40 | 14.7:1 | 71% (418) |
| 2010-11 | 493 | 43 | 11.5:1 | 61% (303) |
| 2000-01 | 680 | 39 | 17.4:1 | 36% (244) |
| 1990-91 | 936 | 46 | 20.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cleveland Elementary - 14.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (546 to 465); teachers down 8% (37.8 to 34.6).
About Cleveland Elementary - 14
Cleveland Elementary - 14 is an elementary school with a street address in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It is open to students in pre-K through 5 and enrolls 465 students. By comparison, elementary schools in South Dakota enroll about 204 students on average.
Sioux Falls School District 49-5 is the district for Cleveland Elementary - 14. It has 44 schools and 25,060 students.
The biggest share of students at Cleveland Elementary - 14, 36%, is Black. Next come 24% White, 21% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, and 5% Native American. That compares with about 7% Black among all Minnehaha County residents. The diversity index for Cleveland Elementary - 14 is 75%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its staff includes 34.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 13.4 students per teacher. The gap from the 15.4:1 average for elementary schools in South Dakota is 2.0 students per teacher. Roughly 83% of students at Cleveland Elementary - 14 can receive free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Minnehaha County is 42%.
On the allk12 Grade, Cleveland Elementary - 14 lands at D, ahead of 10% of South Dakota public elementary schools.
Cleveland Elementary - 14's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 22.1% is 7.1 points below the 29.2% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
The school's county is Minnehaha County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $76,880, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 35%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. There are 83 public schools in the county, enrolling about 34,919, Cleveland Elementary - 14 among them.
Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54 sits about 1.0 miles from Cleveland Elementary - 14. Cleveland Elementary - 14 has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Cleveland Elementary - 14 comes in 5th of 7 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The federal government classifies Cleveland Elementary - 14's location as City: Mid-size.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell from 537 to 465, a 13% drop.
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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 Cleveland Elementary schools
22 other US public schools in 15 states are named Cleveland Elementary. Cleveland Elementary - 14 is the 7th largest of the 23.
- Cleveland ElementaryClayton, NC · 851 students
- Cleveland ElementaryStockton, CA · 587 students
- Cleveland Elementary SchoolElkhart, IN · 519 students
- Cleveland Elementary SchoolNorman, OK · 514 students
- Cleveland Elementary SchoolChicago, IL · 507 students
Nearby schools
- Harvey Dunn Elementary - 541.0 mi · 681
- Eugene Field A+ Elementary - 161.1 mi · 444
- Anne Sullivan Elementary - 201.1 mi · 632
- Washington High School - 011.2 mi · 1,819
- Terry Redlin Elementary - 111.3 mi · 412
- Rosa Parks Elementary - 151.3 mi · 618
Frequently asked questions
About Cleveland Elementary - 14What is the total enrollment at Cleveland Elementary - 14?
Cleveland Elementary - 14 enrolls approximately 465 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Cleveland Elementary - 14 serve?
Cleveland Elementary - 14 serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Cleveland Elementary - 14?
Approximately 13.4:1 students per teacher at Cleveland Elementary - 14.
How diverse is Cleveland Elementary - 14?
Cleveland Elementary - 14 reports a student body of 24% White, 21% Hispanic, 36% Black, 3% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Who oversees Cleveland Elementary - 14?
Cleveland Elementary - 14 is overseen by Sioux Falls School District 49-5 in Minnehaha County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.