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Enrollment
681
Elementary
DISTRICT 466 · STATE 204
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SIOUX FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT 49-5·NCES 466627000588
Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54
2400 S Bahnson Ave, Sioux Falls, SD 57103 · (605) 371-4120 · Minnehaha County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL681 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 88% 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.
- ABeats 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
18.0:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 15.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
47%
317 students
DISTRICT 58% · 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 | 117 | 17% |
| Kindergarten | 84 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 103 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 97 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 97 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 90 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 93 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (84) is 10% smaller than its 5th grade class (93).
Student demographics
56%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
59.3%
SD avg 50.3% . -0.5pp since 2022
Math
61.9%
SD avg 47.5% . -1.4pp since 2022
What this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all South Dakota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 47. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2022, while math scores are down about 1 points.
SD Smarter Balanced results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.3% | 61.9% |
| 2023-24 | 56.5% | 64.3% |
| 2022-23 | 59.8% | 63.3% |
% 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
60.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.0%
based on SD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 44% 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 16 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 Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54
Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54's state test result (60.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54 this school | 681 | 46.5% | 60.0% |
| Robert Frost Elementary - 18 Sioux Falls | 447 | 42.1% | 50.4% |
| RF Pettigrew Elementary - 17 Sioux Falls | 846 | 37.8% | 53.5% |
| Eugene Field A+ Elementary - 16 Sioux Falls | 444 | 46.6% | 49.7% |
| Oscar Howe Elementary - 58 Sioux Falls | 608 | 52.0% | 43.8% |
| John F. Kennedy Elementary - 57 Sioux Falls | 661 | 37.5% | 57.8% |
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 Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In South Dakota | In Minnehaha County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.0% | #38 of 193 | #11 of 35 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.9% | #55 of 199 ▼ 11 | #14 of 35 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.3% | #61 of 202 no change | #14 of 35 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 681 | #7 of 331 | #6 of 39 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.0:1 | #126 of 131 | #29 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.2% | #34 of 131 | #14 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 46.5% | #63 of 209 | #16 of 36 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.6% | #57 of 87 | #11 of 16 |
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
681
-4 (-1%) vs 2020
+34% since 1990-91, when it was 510
Student : Teacher
18.0:1
was 17.6:1
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 | 681 | 37.9 | 18.0:1 | 47% (317) |
| 2023-24 | 662 | 36.3 | 18.2:1 | 40% (264) |
| 2022-23 | 632 | 37.9 | 16.7:1 | 34% (214) |
| 2020-21 | 685 | 39 | 17.6:1 | 38% (260) |
| 2017-18 | 745 | 39.4 | 18.9:1 | 27% (204) |
| 2015-16 | 741 | 39 | 19.0:1 | 29% (218) |
| 2010-11 | 486 | 28 | 17.4:1 | 15% (72) |
| 2000-01 | 468 | 25 | 18.7:1 | 5% (25) |
| 1990-91 | 510 | 26 | 19.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (745 to 681); teachers down 4% (39.4 to 37.9).
About Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54
Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54 is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. There are 681 students enrolled, covering pre-K through 5. The school is 234% larger than the average for elementary schools in South Dakota.
Sioux Falls School District 49-5 has 25,060 students in 44 schools, and Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54 is one of those schools.
At Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54, 63% of students are White. After that, the student body is 14% Black, 11% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, and 4% Native American. Census figures show Minnehaha County is about 80% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54 scores 56%.
Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54 has 37.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 18.0:1. Elementary schools in South Dakota average 15.4:1, 2.6 fewer students per teacher than here. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 47% at Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54.
Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54 earns an A on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 88% of South Dakota public elementary schools.
Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54 is in the top 10% of South Dakota schools on the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure. Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 44.0%. The school's actual rate is 60.0%, 16.0 points higher.
Minnehaha County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $76,880 a year, roughly 35% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54 shares Minnehaha County with 82 other public schools.
Cleveland Elementary - 14 is about 1.0 miles from Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. By average proficiency, Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54 is 2nd among 8 schools close by.
Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54 has an NCES locale of City: Mid-size.
Enrollment at Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54 was 685 in 2020-21 and 681 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%.
Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54 has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates 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
- Edison Middle School - 06Middle · 937 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
- Cleveland Elementary - 141.0 mi · 465
- Rosa Parks Elementary - 151.1 mi · 618
- John Harris Elementary - 231.2 mi · 666
- Bridges At Horace Mann - 521.4 mi · 55
- Lincoln High School - 021.5 mi · 1,954
- Eugene Field A+ Elementary - 161.8 mi · 444
Frequently asked questions
About Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54How many students attend Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54?
Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54 enrolls approximately 681 students in grades PK-05.
Is Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54 an elementary, middle, or high school?
Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54 is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54 have?
Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54 employs 38 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.0:1.
What is the student diversity at Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54?
Student demographics at Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54 are roughly 63% White, 7% Hispanic, 14% Black, 1% Asian, 11% Two or more.
What district is Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54 in?
Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54 is part of Sioux Falls School District 49-5.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.