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Enrollment
431
Elementary
DISTRICT 386 · STATE 204
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RAPID CITY AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT 51-4·NCES 465982000548
Grandview Elementary - 06
3301 Grandview Dr, Rapid City, SD 57701 · (605) 394-1829 · Pennington County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL431 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 40% of South Dakota public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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
16.4:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.6:1 · STATE 15.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
39%
169 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 66 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 71 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 78 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 86 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 68 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 62 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (66) is 6% larger than its 5th grade class (62).
Student demographics
61%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
42.9%
SD avg 50.3% . +1.9pp since 2022
Math
41.0%
SD avg 47.5% . -6.2pp since 2022
What this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 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 2 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 6 points.
SD Smarter Balanced results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 42.9% | 41.0% |
| 2023-24 | 47.1% | 48.1% |
| 2022-23 | 41.0% | 47.2% |
% 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
44.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.0%
based on SD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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 Grandview Elementary - 06
Grandview Elementary - 06's state test result (44.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grandview Elementary - 06 this school | 431 | 39.2% | 44.7% |
| Vandenberg Elementary - 02 Box Elder | 454 | 40.5% | 46.4% |
| Rapid Valley Elementary - 12 Rapid City | 486 | 42.2% | 41.5% |
| Woodrow Wilson Elementary - 17 Rapid City | 328 | 41.8% | 41.0% |
| Valley View Elementary - 13 Rapid City | 605 | 41.2% | 30.8% |
| L. B. Williams Elementary - 03 Mitchell | 438 | 41.3% | 46.3% |
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 Grandview Elementary - 06 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In South Dakota | In Pennington County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.7% | #122 of 193 | #8 of 18 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #142 of 199 ▼ 30 | #9 of 19 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.9% | #137 of 202 ▼ 21 | #10 of 19 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 431 | #49 of 331 | #8 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.4:1 | #108 of 131 | #12 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.7% | #27 of 131 | #8 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 39.2% | #85 of 209 | #11 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.7% | #56 of 87 | #7 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
431
+72 (+20%) vs 2020
-11% since 1990-91, when it was 483
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
was 13.8:1
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 | 431 | 26.3 | 16.4:1 | 39% (169) |
| 2023-24 | 409 | 28 | 14.6:1 | 27% (110) |
| 2022-23 | 406 | 26.3 | 15.4:1 | 29% (117) |
| 2020-21 | 359 | 26 | 13.8:1 | 28% (99) |
| 2017-18 | 472 | 29.4 | 16.1:1 | 33% (156) |
| 2015-16 | 458 | 30 | 15.3:1 | 40% (184) |
| 2010-11 | 483 | 30 | 16.1:1 | 29% (139) |
| 2000-01 | 505 | 30 | 16.8:1 | 13% (64) |
| 1990-91 | 483 | 23 | 21.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Grandview Elementary - 06.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (472 to 431); teachers down 11% (29.4 to 26.3).
About Grandview Elementary - 06
Grandview Elementary - 06 is a large elementary school found in Rapid City, South Dakota. The school enrolls 431 students, from kindergarten through 5. Average enrollment for elementary schools in South Dakota is about 204, so this school runs 111% above that.
A total of 26 schools make up Rapid City Area School District 51-4, with 12,610 students enrolled.
White students make up a majority at Grandview Elementary - 06, at 58%. The next largest groups are 16% Native American, 12% Hispanic, and 10% multiracial. In Pennington County overall, about 79% of residents are White. The school's diversity index is 61%, meaning two students picked at random have a 61% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Teachers at the school number 26.3 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 16.4:1. This ratio sits 1.0 above the 15.4:1 average for elementary schools in South Dakota. Roughly 39% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. That tracks the 41% average for public schools in Pennington County.
Grandview Elementary - 06 is graded C+ by allk12, scoring above 40% of South Dakota public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Grandview Elementary - 06 posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 44.7%, compared with a predicted 47.0%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of South Dakota schools on BeatsExpectations.
Census Bureau estimates for Pennington County show that the median household income is $74,517, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 35% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 7%. There are 41 public schools in Pennington County, enrolling about 16,186 students in all.
South Middle School - 36 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles away. Within five miles of Grandview Elementary - 06, there are at least 8 other public schools. Of 5 schools in the immediate area with test results, Grandview Elementary - 06 ranks 1st on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Grandview Elementary - 06 is coded City: Small, for schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment climbed 20% from its 2020-21 level of 359. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 13.8:1 in 2020-21 to 16.4:1 in 2024-25.
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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
Other Grandview Elementary schools
20 other US public schools in 14 states are named Grandview Elementary. Grandview Elementary - 06 is the 10th largest of the 21.
- Grandview Elementary SchoolDerry, PA · 753 students
- Grandview Elementary SchoolErie, PA · 691 students
- Grandview Elementary SchoolGRANDVIEW, TX · 643 students
- GRANDVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMONSEY, NY · 609 students
- Grandview Elementary SchoolTelford, TN · 585 students
Nearby schools
- South Middle School - 360.7 mi · 618
- Robbinsdale Elementary - 140.7 mi · 328
- South Park Elementary - 160.8 mi · 313
- Woodrow Wilson Elementary - 171.4 mi · 328
- Jefferson Building - 641.7 mi · 98
- Rapid City Online High School - 922.0 mi · 73
Frequently asked questions
About Grandview Elementary - 06What is the total enrollment at Grandview Elementary - 06?
Grandview Elementary - 06 enrolls approximately 431 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Grandview Elementary - 06 serve?
Grandview Elementary - 06 serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Grandview Elementary - 06?
Approximately 16.4:1 students per teacher at Grandview Elementary - 06.
What is the student diversity at Grandview Elementary - 06?
Student demographics at Grandview Elementary - 06 are roughly 58% White, 12% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is Grandview Elementary - 06 in?
Grandview Elementary - 06 is part of Rapid City Area School District 51-4.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.