Corral Drive Elementary - 21

As a high-enrollment elementary-level community in Rapid City, South Dakota, Corral Drive Elementary - 21 works with 439 students from grades K through 5, run under Rapid City Area School District 51-4. Compared to the state average of about 204 students per school, that is 115% bigger than typical.

Corral Drive Elementary - 21 is one of 26 schools operated by Rapid City Area School District 51-4, a district that hosts 12,610 students overall.

Demographically, Corral Drive Elementary - 21 logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%). The remainder breaks down as 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Pennington County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Corral Drive Elementary - 21 has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting Corral Drive Elementary - 21 higher than the state norm the norm. Around 6% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Pennington County's rate of about 41%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Corral Drive Elementary - 21 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.5%, the actual is 61.3%, a residual of +0.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, Pennington County reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,517 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Pennington County's 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,186 students), Corral Drive Elementary - 21 is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Southwest Middle School - 38, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Corral Drive Elementary - 21. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Corral Drive Elementary - 21 ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 48.6%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Corral Drive Elementary - 21 has contracted 7%, going from 470 students in 2018 to 439 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 92% to 83%.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.