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Enrollment
531
Elementary
DISTRICT 443 · STATE 204
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BRANDON VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT 49-2·NCES 460795001302
Fred Assam Elementary - 06
7700 E Willowwood St, Sioux Falls, SD 57110 · (605) 582-1500 · Minnehaha County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL531 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 99% 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.
- 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
18.1:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 15.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
8%
41 students
DISTRICT 19% · 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 | 136 | 26% |
| Grade 1 | 93 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 103 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 99 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 100 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (136) is 36% larger than its 4th grade class (100).
Student demographics
26%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 32% · 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
Fred Assam Elementary - 06→Brandon Valley Intermediate - 07→Brandon Valley Middle School - 02→Brandon Valley High School - 01
Based on grade levels within Brandon Valley School District 49-2. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
SD Smarter Balanced 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
85.7%
SD avg 50.3% . -2.1pp since 2022
Math
91.8%
SD avg 47.5% . +5.7pp since 2022
What this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 86 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 92 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 2 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 6 points.
SD Smarter Balanced results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 85.7% | 91.8% |
| 2023-24 | 90.3% | 91.9% |
| 2022-23 | 87.8% | 86.1% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of SD schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
89.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.9%
based on SD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+30.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 90% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 60% typical for South Dakota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 30 points, placing it in South Dakota's top 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 Fred Assam Elementary - 06
Fred Assam Elementary - 06's state test result (89.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fred Assam Elementary - 06 this school | 531 | 7.7% | 89.9% |
| Robert Bennis Elementary - 05 Brandon | 542 | 10.1% | 69.5% |
| Tea Area Legacy Elementary - 01 Tea | 538 | 14.5% | 64.4% |
| Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07 Brookings | 509 | 12.4% | 64.2% |
| Liberty Elementary - 02 Harrisburg | 559 | 16.1% | 40.7% |
| Adventure Elementary - 10 Sioux Falls | 440 | 9.8% | 80.4% |
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 Fred Assam Elementary - 06 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In South Dakota | In Minnehaha County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 89.9% | #2 of 193 | #2 of 35 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 91.8% | #2 of 199 no change | #2 of 35 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 85.7% | #3 of 202 ▼ 1 | #2 of 35 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 531 | #21 of 331 | #14 of 39 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.1:1 | #128 of 131 | #31 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 25.8% | #98 of 131 | #25 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 7.7% | #207 of 209 | #36 of 36 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +9.7% | #17 of 36 | #4 of 13 |
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
531
-44 (-8%) vs 2020
+80% since 2010-11, when it was 295
Student : Teacher
18.1:1
was 18.0:1
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 | 531 | 29.3 | 18.1:1 | 8% (41) |
| 2023-24 | 499 | 27.2 | 18.3:1 | 6% (28) |
| 2022-23 | 486 | 27.3 | 17.8:1 | 6% (31) |
| 2020-21 | 575 | 32 | 18.0:1 | 5% (28) |
| 2017-18 | 484 | 31.7 | 15.3:1 | 21% (100) |
| 2015-16 | 400 | 30 | 13.3:1 | 22% (86) |
| 2010-11 | 295 | 20 | 14.8:1 | 32% (94) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Fred Assam Elementary - 06.
Since 2017-18: students up 10% (484 to 531); teachers down 8% (31.7 to 29.3).
About Fred Assam Elementary - 06
Fred Assam Elementary - 06 is a public large elementary school in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. In all, 531 students attend the school in kindergarten through 4. That is 160% above the average of about 204 students for elementary schools in South Dakota.
Brandon Valley School District 49-2 (8 schools, 5,182 students) runs Fred Assam Elementary - 06.
At Fred Assam Elementary - 06, 86% of students are White. The remaining students are 7% multiracial and 5% Hispanic. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 26%.
The school lists 29.3 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.1:1. Statewide, elementary schools in South Dakota average 15.4:1. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 8% of the student body. Public schools in Minnehaha County average 42%.
Fred Assam Elementary - 06 holds an A+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 99% of South Dakota public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. Fred Assam Elementary - 06 beats its 59.9% prediction with 89.9%, a top-10% result in South Dakota.
American Community Survey estimates for Minnehaha County show that median household income comes to about $76,880, roughly 35% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. The county's public schools total 83, with about 34,919 students.
About 1.9 miles separate Fred Assam Elementary - 06 from the closest public school, Rosa Parks Elementary - 15. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: Fred Assam Elementary - 06 ranks 1st of 8 nearby schools, at 89.9% versus a 50.1% average.
NCES assigns Fred Assam Elementary - 06 the locale City: Mid-size, meaning inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
In 2020-21, Fred Assam Elementary - 06 enrolled 575 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 531.
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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 Brandon Valley School District 49-2
- Brandon Valley High School - 01High · 1,381 students
- Brandon Valley Intermediate - 07Middle · 829 students
- Brandon Valley Middle School - 02Middle · 759 students
- Brandon Elementary - 03Elementary · 728 students
- Robert Bennis Elementary - 05Elementary · 542 students
- Inspiration Elementary - 08Elementary · 345 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
Nearby schools
- Rosa Parks Elementary - 151.9 mi · 618
- Washington High School - 012.2 mi · 1,819
- Ben Reifel Middle School - 682.3 mi · 885
- Inspiration Elementary - 082.4 mi · 345
- Brandon Valley Intermediate - 072.4 mi · 829
- Robert Bennis Elementary - 052.5 mi · 542
Frequently asked questions
About Fred Assam Elementary - 06How many students attend Fred Assam Elementary - 06?
Fred Assam Elementary - 06 enrolls approximately 531 students in grades KG-04.
What grades does Fred Assam Elementary - 06 serve?
Fred Assam Elementary - 06 serves grades KG-04.
How many students per teacher at Fred Assam Elementary - 06?
Approximately 18.1:1 students per teacher at Fred Assam Elementary - 06.
How diverse is Fred Assam Elementary - 06?
Fred Assam Elementary - 06 reports a student body of 86% White, 5% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Fred Assam Elementary - 06?
Fred Assam Elementary - 06 is overseen by Brandon Valley School District 49-2 in Minnehaha County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.