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Which teacher or staff member at Edison Middle School - 06 deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
937
Middle
DISTRICT 767 · STATE 187
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SIOUX FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT 49-5·NCES 466627000583
Edison Middle School - 06
2101 S West Ave, Sioux Falls, SD 57105 · (605) 367-7643 · Minnehaha County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL937 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 63% of South Dakota public middle schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
60 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 13.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
452 students
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 42%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 298 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 303 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 336 | 36% |
Student demographics
61%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
54.7%
SD avg 50.3% . +3.5pp since 2022
Math
42.9%
SD avg 47.5% . -1.5pp since 2022
What this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 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 4 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 2 points.
SD Smarter Balanced results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.7% | 42.9% |
| 2023-24 | 49.5% | 43.7% |
| 2022-23 | 51.2% | 44.4% |
% 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
45.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.3%
based on SD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 Edison Middle School - 06
Edison Middle School - 06's state test result (45.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edison Middle School - 06 this school | 937 | 48.2% | 45.9% |
| Ben Reifel Middle School - 68 Sioux Falls | 885 | 44.5% | 49.8% |
| Patrick Henry Middle School - 07 Sioux Falls | 925 | 35.6% | 57.9% |
| Memorial Middle School - 04 Sioux Falls | 1,133 | 30.8% | 58.5% |
| Douglas Middle School - 01 Box Elder | 633 | 37.8% | 36.1% |
| Yankton Middle School - 02 Yankton | 608 | 39.8% | 49.4% |
Matched among South Dakota middle 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 Edison Middle School - 06 ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In South Dakota | In Minnehaha County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.9% | #38 of 64 | #10 of 13 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.9% | #41 of 64 ▼ 5 | #11 of 13 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.7% | #35 of 65 ▲ 7 | #9 of 13 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 937 | #2 of 165 | #2 of 14 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.5:1 | #30 of 42 | #6 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.9% | #7 of 42 | #3 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.2% | #13 of 65 | #3 of 13 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.5% | #9 of 26 | #4 of 6 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
937
-256 (-21%) vs 2020
-1% since 1990-91, when it was 947
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
was 17.0:1
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 | 937 | 60.4 | 15.5:1 | 48% (452) |
| 2023-24 | 943 | 61.6 | 15.3:1 | 36% (343) |
| 2022-23 | 916 | 66.1 | 13.9:1 | 35% (321) |
| 2020-21 | 1,193 | 70 | 17.0:1 | 38% (454) |
| 2017-18 | 1,047 | 66.8 | 15.7:1 | 34% (358) |
| 2015-16 | 936 | 60 | 15.6:1 | 41% (380) |
| 2010-11 | 825 | 53 | 15.6:1 | 35% (285) |
| 2000-01 | 751 | 46 | 16.3:1 | 24% (178) |
| 1990-91 | 947 | 56 | 16.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Edison Middle School - 06.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (1,047 to 937); teachers down 10% (66.8 to 60.4).
About Edison Middle School - 06
Edison Middle School - 06 is a large middle school in Sioux Falls School District 49-5, located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The school reports 937 students in grades 6 through 8. The school's enrollment is 401% bigger than the 187 average for middle schools in South Dakota.
The district, Sioux Falls School District 49-5, operates 44 schools serving 25,060 students.
White students account for 58% of enrollment at Edison Middle School - 06. The remaining students are 18% Hispanic, 11% Black, 7% multiracial, and 4% Native American. Census figures show Minnehaha County is about 80% White. The chance that two students picked at random at Edison Middle School - 06 belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 61%.
Edison Middle School - 06 employs 60.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 15.5:1. The average ratio among middle schools in South Dakota is 13.4:1, lower than at this school. Edison Middle School - 06's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 48%.
The allk12 Grade for Edison Middle School - 06 is B. Compared with South Dakota public middle schools, the school scored higher than 63% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 43.3% for Edison Middle School - 06. The school posts 45.9%, 2.6 points above the prediction.
Across Minnehaha County, median household income is about $76,880, about 35% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Edison Middle School - 06 is among the 83 public schools in Minnehaha County.
Laura Wilder Elementary - 31 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, Edison Middle School - 06 is behind the 47.0% nearby average, ranking 4th of 8.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Mid-size: inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count dropped from 1,193 to 937. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio fell from 17.0:1 to 15.5:1.
The discussion area below is open to posts about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
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
- Patrick Henry Middle School - 07Middle · 925 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
- Patrick Henry Middle School - 07Middle · 925 students
Other Edison Middle schools
11 other US public schools in 10 states are named Edison Middle. Edison Middle School - 06 is the 2nd largest of the 12.
- Edison MiddleGreen Bay, WI · 1,121 students
- Edison Middle SchoolMeriden, CT · 773 students
- Edison Middle SchoolChampaign, IL · 647 students
- Edison Middle SchoolWheaton, IL · 635 students
- Edison MiddleJanesville, WI · 587 students
Nearby schools
- Laura Wilder Elementary - 310.3 mi · 447
- Sonia Sotomayor Elementary - 650.4 mi · 690
- Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 660.9 mi · 472
- Lowell Elementary - 280.9 mi · 426
- Community Campus - 411.0 mi · 77
- Garfield Elementary - 191.1 mi · 574
Frequently asked questions
About Edison Middle School - 06How many students attend Edison Middle School - 06?
Edison Middle School - 06 enrolls approximately 937 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Edison Middle School - 06 serve?
Edison Middle School - 06 serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Edison Middle School - 06?
Approximately 15.5:1 students per teacher at Edison Middle School - 06.
What is the student diversity at Edison Middle School - 06?
Student demographics at Edison Middle School - 06 are roughly 58% White, 18% Hispanic, 11% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Edison Middle School - 06?
Edison Middle School - 06 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.