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What's something Corral Drive Elementary - 21 does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
439
Elementary
DISTRICT 386 · STATE 204
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RAPID CITY AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT 51-4·NCES 465982000542
Corral Drive Elementary - 21
3736 Corral Dr, Rapid City, SD 57702 · (605) 394-6789 · Pennington County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL439 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 73% of South Dakota public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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
20.1:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.6:1 · STATE 15.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
6%
27 students
DISTRICT 48% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 58 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 78 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 71 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 80 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 78 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 74 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (58) is 22% smaller than its 5th grade class (74).
Student demographics
30%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
57.5%
SD avg 50.3% . -6.2pp since 2022
Math
58.9%
SD avg 47.5% . -10.9pp since 2022
What this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all South Dakota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 47. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 11 points.
SD Smarter Balanced results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 57.5% | 58.9% |
| 2023-24 | 63.8% | 69.3% |
| 2022-23 | 63.7% | 69.8% |
% 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
61.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.5%
based on SD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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 Corral Drive Elementary - 21
Corral Drive Elementary - 21's state test result (61.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corral Drive Elementary - 21 this school | 439 | 6.2% | 61.3% |
| Adventure Elementary - 10 Sioux Falls | 440 | 9.8% | 80.4% |
| Pinedale Elementary - 11 Rapid City | 377 | 14.1% | 58.4% |
| Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07 Brookings | 509 | 12.4% | 64.2% |
| Fred Assam Elementary - 06 Sioux Falls | 531 | 7.7% | 89.9% |
| Dakota Valley Elementary - 02 North Sioux City | 386 | 15.8% | 55.0% |
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 Corral Drive Elementary - 21 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In South Dakota | In Pennington County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.3% | #35 of 193 | #1 of 18 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.9% | #70 of 199 ▼ 39 | #3 of 19 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.5% | #68 of 202 ▼ 35 | #2 of 19 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 439 | #46 of 331 | #7 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.1:1 | #130 of 131 | #17 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 30.4% | #90 of 131 | #17 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 6.2% | #208 of 209 | #19 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.6% | #65 of 87 | #10 of 14 |
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
439
-29 (-6%) vs 2020
+76% since 1990-91, when it was 249
Student : Teacher
20.1:1
was 20.4:1
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 | 439 | 21.9 | 20.1:1 | 6% (27) |
| 2023-24 | 467 | 23.9 | 19.5:1 | 4% (17) |
| 2022-23 | 461 | 22.3 | 20.7:1 | 6% (29) |
| 2020-21 | 468 | 23 | 20.4:1 | 4% (21) |
| 2017-18 | 470 | 23.5 | 20.0:1 | 4% (18) |
| 2015-16 | 479 | 24 | 20.0:1 | 6% (31) |
| 2010-11 | 457 | 24 | 19.0:1 | 6% (28) |
| 2000-01 | 404 | 20 | 20.2:1 | 3% (11) |
| 1990-91 | 249 | 10 | 24.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Corral Drive Elementary - 21.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (470 to 439); teachers down 7% (23.5 to 21.9).
About Corral Drive Elementary - 21
The public elementary school Corral Drive Elementary - 21 is located in Rapid City, South Dakota. It enrolled 439 students in kindergarten through 5 for the 2024-25 school year. For comparison, elementary schools in South Dakota average about 204 students.
Rapid City Area School District 51-4 counts 12,610 students in its 26 schools, and Corral Drive Elementary - 21 is one of them.
The large majority of students at Corral Drive Elementary - 21, 83%, are White. The next largest groups are 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 4% Asian. County-wide, about 79% of residents are White. By the diversity index, Corral Drive Elementary - 21 comes in at 30%.
The school has about 20.1 students per teacher and 21.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. That ratio is over the 15.4:1 average for elementary schools in South Dakota. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 6%. The rate at public schools in Pennington County averages 41%, higher than here.
The allk12 Grade for Corral Drive Elementary - 21 is B+. Compared with South Dakota public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 73% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Corral Drive Elementary - 21 is within a point of its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (61.3% versus 60.5%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in South Dakota.
Corral Drive Elementary - 21 is located in Pennington County, where median household income is about $74,517, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 41 public schools in Pennington County, with a combined enrollment of about 16,186.
The next-closest public school is Southwest Middle School - 38, less than a tenth of a mile away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Corral Drive Elementary - 21. In a group of 7 nearby schools with scores, Corral Drive Elementary - 21 ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
Federal data place Corral Drive Elementary - 21 in the City: Small locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Corral Drive Elementary - 21 went from 468 students to 439.
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Pennington County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
113,512
Census ACS
Median income
$74,517
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
41
16,186 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 schools in Rapid City
- 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
Nearby schools
- Southwest Middle School - 380.0 mi · 614
- Meadowbrook Elementary - 101.7 mi · 478
- Canyon Lake Elementary - 042.2 mi · 297
- Stevens High School - 422.5 mi · 1,771
- West Middle School - 372.5 mi · 591
- South Canyon Elementary - 153.1 mi · 274
Frequently asked questions
About Corral Drive Elementary - 21How many students attend Corral Drive Elementary - 21?
Corral Drive Elementary - 21 enrolls approximately 439 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Corral Drive Elementary - 21 serve?
Corral Drive Elementary - 21 serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Corral Drive Elementary - 21?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Corral Drive Elementary - 21 is approximately 20.1:1 (22 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Corral Drive Elementary - 21?
At Corral Drive Elementary - 21, the student body is approximately 83% White, 6% Hispanic, 0% Black, 4% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Corral Drive Elementary - 21 in?
Corral Drive Elementary - 21 is part of Rapid City Area School District 51-4.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.