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Which teacher or staff member at Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07 deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
509
Elementary
DISTRICT 427 · STATE 204
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BROOKINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT 05-1·NCES 460852001356
Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07
111 26th St S, Brookings, SD 57006 · (605) 696-4900 · Brookings County
GRADES PK–03ELEMENTARY41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL509 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 83% of South Dakota public elementary schools
- ATest 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
14.6:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.5:1 · STATE 15.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
12%
63 students
DISTRICT 23% · 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 | 12 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 144 | 28% |
| Grade 1 | 111 | 22% |
| Grade 2 | 121 | 24% |
| Grade 3 | 121 | 24% |
Student demographics
32%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 39% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07→Camelot Intermediate - 06→George S. Mickelson Middle School - 02→Brookings High School - 01
Based on grade levels within Brookings School District 05-1. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
SD Smarter Balanced 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
62.2%
SD avg 50.3% . +28.5pp since 2022
Math
73.1%
SD avg 47.5% . +18.3pp since 2022
What this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 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 29 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 18 points.
SD Smarter Balanced results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.2% | 73.1% |
| 2023-24 | 51.8% | 69.6% |
| 2022-23 | 33.7% | 54.8% |
% 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
64.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.0%
based on SD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07
Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07's state test result (64.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07 this school | 509 | 12.4% | 64.2% |
| Robert Bennis Elementary - 05 Brandon | 542 | 10.1% | 69.5% |
| Tea Area Legacy Elementary - 01 Tea | 538 | 14.5% | 64.4% |
| Fred Assam Elementary - 06 Sioux Falls | 531 | 7.7% | 89.9% |
| Liberty Elementary - 02 Harrisburg | 559 | 16.1% | 40.7% |
| Pinedale Elementary - 11 Rapid City | 377 | 14.1% | 58.4% |
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 Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In South Dakota | In Brookings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.2% | #23 of 193 | #1 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.1% | #24 of 199 ▲ 5 | #1 of 6 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.2% | #41 of 202 ▲ 61 | #1 of 6 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 509 | #27 of 331 | #2 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #81 of 131 | N/A |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 31.7% | #88 of 131 | N/A |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 12.4% | #202 of 209 | #6 of 6 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +9.9% | #15 of 36 | 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
509
+77 (+18%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 13.1:1
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 | 509 | 34.8 | 14.6:1 | 12% (63) |
| 2023-24 | 490 | 38.7 | 12.7:1 | 13% (63) |
| 2022-23 | 473 | 35.9 | 13.2:1 | 17% (81) |
| 2020-21 | 432 | 33 | 13.1:1 | 8% (33) |
| 2017-18 | 463 | 33.6 | 13.8:1 | 19% (87) |
| 2015-16 | 442 | 26 | 17.0:1 | 21% (94) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07.
Since 2017-18: students up 10% (463 to 509); teachers up 4% (33.6 to 34.8).
About Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07
Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07 is a public elementary school run by Brookings School District 05-1 in Brookings, South Dakota. A federal count lists 509 students at the school, in pre-K through 3. Average enrollment for elementary schools in South Dakota is about 204, so this school runs 150% bigger than that.
The district, Brookings School District 05-1, operates 8 schools serving 3,546 students.
White students are the large majority at Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07, with 82% of enrollment. The remaining shares are 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 3% Black. Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07 has a diversity index of 32%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Staffing totals 34.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.6:1. For comparison, elementary schools in South Dakota average 15.4:1. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 12%. That is 8 points below the 20% average for public schools in Brookings County.
allk12 grades Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07 an A-. The grade compares the school only with South Dakota public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
A school with Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07's lunch-eligibility share in South Dakota is predicted to score 58.0%. Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07 scores 64.2%, 6.2 points above that line.
Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07 is located in Brookings County, where median household income is about $70,064, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 21 public schools in Brookings County, with a combined enrollment of about 4,921.
Nearby, Camelot Intermediate - 06 is about 1.3 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number 7. Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07 is 1st of 5 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
By NCES locale, the school is Rural: Fringe, or in rural territory close to an urban area.
Enrollment was 432 in 2020-21 and 509 in 2024-25, a increase of 77 students. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 13.1:1 to 14.6:1.
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Brookings County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
35,353
Census ACS
Median income
$70,064
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
21
4,921 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Brookings School District 05-1
- Brookings High School - 01High · 979 students
- George S. Mickelson Middle School - 02Middle · 780 students
- Camelot Intermediate - 06Elementary · 523 students
- Medary Elementary - 05Elementary · 358 students
- Hillcrest Elementary - 04Elementary · 316 students
- Bobcat Plains Academy High School - 92High · 77 students
Other schools in Brookings
- Brookings High School - 01High · 979 students
- George S. Mickelson Middle School - 02Middle · 780 students
- Camelot Intermediate - 06Elementary · 523 students
- Medary Elementary - 05Elementary · 358 students
- Hillcrest Elementary - 04Elementary · 316 students
- Bobcat Plains Academy High School - 92High · 77 students
Other Dakota Prairie Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Dakota Prairie Elementary. Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07 is the largest of the 2.
- DAKOTA PRAIRIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMcVille, ND · 158 students
Nearby schools
- Camelot Intermediate - 061.3 mi · 523
- Medary Elementary - 051.7 mi · 358
- George S. Mickelson Middle School - 021.8 mi · 780
- Bobcat Plains Academy High School - 921.8 mi · 77
- Bobcat Plains Academy Middle School - 931.8 mi · 4
- Brookings High School - 011.9 mi · 979
Frequently asked questions
About Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07How large is Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07?
Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07 enrolls approximately 509 students in grades PK-03.
What grades does Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07 serve?
Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07 serves grades PK-03.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07 is approximately 14.6:1 (35 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07?
At Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07, the student body is approximately 82% White, 6% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07 public or private?
Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07 is a public K-12 school, overseen by Brookings School District 05-1.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.