Inspiration Elementary - 08

Inspiration Elementary - 08 operates as a high-enrollment primary school in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, overseen by Brandon Valley School District 49-2. Current enrollment sits at 345 students spanning grades K through 4. That puts it 69% bigger than the typical public school in South Dakota, which averages around 204 students.

Across the 8 schools in Brandon Valley School District 49-2 (5,182 students total), Inspiration Elementary - 08 accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Inspiration Elementary - 08 logs that the largest single group is White, at 69% of enrollment. Other groups include 11% Black, 9% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Inspiration Elementary - 08 has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 25% of students at Inspiration Elementary - 08 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Minnehaha County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Inspiration Elementary - 08 sits in the top 10% of South Dakota schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 52.7%; actual is 75.2%, +22.5 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Minnehaha County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,880 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Minnehaha County's 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,919 students), Inspiration Elementary - 08 is one campus in the mix.

Ben Reifel Middle School - 68 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Inspiration Elementary - 08. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Inspiration Elementary - 08 at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 50.6%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

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