General Beadle Elementary - 01

Located at 10 Van Buren St, in Rapid City, South Dakota, General Beadle Elementary - 01 is a high-enrollment K-5 school that hosts 483 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Rapid City Area School District 51-4. By comparison, South Dakota's public schools average about 204 students each, so General Beadle Elementary - 01 sits 137% larger than that benchmark.

General Beadle Elementary - 01 is one of 26 schools operated by Rapid City Area School District 51-4, a district that serves 12,610 students overall.

Demographically, General Beadle Elementary - 01 logs that the largest single group is Native American at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 19% White, 15% Hispanic, 10% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, General Beadle Elementary - 01 shows 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.5:1. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Pennington County (around 41%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, General Beadle Elementary - 01 tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 12.4%.

In the surrounding community, Pennington County reports that median household income runs about $74,517, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Pennington County runs 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,186 students), of which General Beadle Elementary - 01 is one.

North Middle School - 35 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around General Beadle Elementary - 01. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts General Beadle Elementary - 01 at 4th of 4; the average score across the group is 17.8%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. General Beadle Elementary - 01's enrollment has contracted 7% since 2018, when it stood at 520 (now 483). Hispanic enrollment moved from 10% to 15% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 in 2025.

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