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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at General Beadle Elementary - 01 this year?
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Enrollment
483
Elementary
DISTRICT 386 · STATE 204
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RAPID CITY AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT 51-4·NCES 465982000536
General Beadle Elementary - 01
10 Van Buren St, Rapid City, SD 57701 · (605) 394-1841 · Pennington County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL483 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 3% of South Dakota public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
18.5:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.6:1 · STATE 15.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
483 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 13 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 84 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 81 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 77 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 79 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 74 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 75 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (84) is 12% larger than its 5th grade class (75).
Student demographics
65%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
14.2%
SD avg 50.3% . -7.4pp since 2022
Math
8.8%
SD avg 47.5% . -1.4pp since 2022
What this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 14 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 9 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 7 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 1 points.
SD Smarter Balanced results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 14.2% | 8.8% |
| 2023-24 | 16.6% | 10.0% |
| 2022-23 | 21.6% | 10.2% |
% 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
12.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.1%
based on SD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 12% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 22% 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 General Beadle Elementary - 01
General Beadle Elementary - 01's state test result (12.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| General Beadle Elementary - 01 this school | 483 | 100.0% | 12.4% |
| Knollwood Heights Elementary - 08 Rapid City | 368 | 100.0% | 15.9% |
| Horace Mann Elementary - 07 Rapid City | 274 | 100.0% | 17.7% |
| South Park Elementary - 16 Rapid City | 313 | 100.0% | 28.1% |
| Robbinsdale Elementary - 14 Rapid City | 328 | 100.0% | 16.3% |
| Rockyford School - 03 Porcupine | 404 | 100.0% | N/A |
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 General Beadle Elementary - 01 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In South Dakota | In Pennington County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 12.4% | #189 of 193 | #18 of 18 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 8.8% | #197 of 199 no change | #19 of 19 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 14.2% | #197 of 202 ▼ 3 | #19 of 19 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 483 | #29 of 331 | #4 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.5:1 | #129 of 131 | #16 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.0% | #22 of 131 | #6 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #6 of 209 | #1 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.1% | #62 of 87 | #9 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
483
+41 (+9%) vs 2020
+13% since 1990-91, when it was 426
Student : Teacher
18.5:1
was 11.9:1
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 | 483 | 26.2 | 18.5:1 | 100% (483) |
| 2023-24 | 441 | 28.6 | 15.4:1 | 100% (441) |
| 2022-23 | 444 | 26.9 | 16.5:1 | 100% (444) |
| 2020-21 | 442 | 37 | 11.9:1 | 100% (442) |
| 2017-18 | 520 | 33.7 | 15.4:1 | 100% (520) |
| 2015-16 | 516 | 33 | 15.6:1 | 100% (516) |
| 2010-11 | 404 | 33 | 12.2:1 | 88% (356) |
| 2000-01 | 268 | 20 | 13.4:1 | 71% (189) |
| 1990-91 | 426 | 24 | 17.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for General Beadle Elementary - 01.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (520 to 483); teachers down 22% (33.7 to 26.2).
About General Beadle Elementary - 01
General Beadle Elementary - 01 is classified as an elementary school. It is located in Rapid City, South Dakota. Its 483 students are spread across pre-K through 5. The typical figure for elementary schools in South Dakota is about 204 students.
In Rapid City Area School District 51-4, 26 schools enroll a combined 12,610 students.
General Beadle Elementary - 01 is 53% Native American by enrollment. The remaining students are 19% White, 15% Hispanic, and 10% multiracial. Pick two students at random and there is a 65% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.5:1 at General Beadle Elementary - 01, with 26.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. This ratio sits 3.1 above the 15.4:1 average for elementary schools in South Dakota. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 100%. Across public schools in Pennington County, the average is 41%.
General Beadle Elementary - 01 is graded F by allk12, scoring above 3% of South Dakota public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 22.1% at General Beadle Elementary - 01; the school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 12.4%.
Pennington County has these Census figures: the median household income is $74,517, roughly 35% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Pennington County is home to 41 public schools and about 16,186 public school students.
Nearby, North Middle School - 35 is about 0.4 miles away. Within five miles of General Beadle Elementary - 01, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, General Beadle Elementary - 01 is 4th of 4 nearby schools with test data.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Small, or inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment has grown by 41 students since 2020-21, to 483. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio rose from 11.9:1 to 18.5:1.
Topics for discussion here include science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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
- North Middle School - 350.4 mi · 418
- Knollwood Heights Elementary - 080.6 mi · 368
- Wellfully - 650.9 mi · 7
- Central High School - 410.9 mi · 1,998
- Horace Mann Elementary - 070.9 mi · 274
- Jefferson Building - 641.1 mi · 98
Frequently asked questions
About General Beadle Elementary - 01How many students attend General Beadle Elementary - 01?
General Beadle Elementary - 01 enrolls approximately 483 students in grades PK-05.
Is General Beadle Elementary - 01 an elementary, middle, or high school?
General Beadle Elementary - 01 is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at General Beadle Elementary - 01?
Approximately 18.5:1 students per teacher at General Beadle Elementary - 01.
How diverse is General Beadle Elementary - 01?
General Beadle Elementary - 01 reports a student body of 19% White, 15% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is General Beadle Elementary - 01 public or private?
General Beadle Elementary - 01 is a public K-12 school, overseen by Rapid City Area School District 51-4.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.