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Enrollment
661
Elementary
DISTRICT 466 · STATE 204
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SIOUX FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT 49-5·NCES 466627000976
John F. Kennedy Elementary - 57
4501 S Holbrook Ave, Sioux Falls, SD 57106 · (605) 362-2784 · Minnehaha County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL661 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 82% 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.
- A-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
15.4:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 15.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
38%
248 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 133 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 98 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 123 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 110 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 96 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 101 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (133) is 32% larger than its 5th grade class (101).
Student demographics
45%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
61.3%
SD avg 50.3% . -1.0pp since 2022
Math
60.3%
SD avg 47.5% . -1.3pp since 2022
What this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 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 1 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 | 61.3% | 60.3% |
| 2023-24 | 59.3% | 61.2% |
| 2022-23 | 62.3% | 61.6% |
% 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
57.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.6%
based on SD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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 John F. Kennedy Elementary - 57
John F. Kennedy Elementary - 57's state test result (57.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| John F. Kennedy Elementary - 57 this school | 661 | 37.5% | 57.8% |
| Brandon Elementary - 03 Brandon | 728 | 29.8% | 71.6% |
| Vermillion Elementary - 05 Vermillion | 625 | 35.8% | N/A |
| 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% |
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 John F. Kennedy Elementary - 57 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In South Dakota | In Minnehaha County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.8% | #49 of 193 | #13 of 35 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 60.3% | #63 of 199 ▼ 6 | #15 of 35 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 61.3% | #49 of 202 ▼ 1 | #11 of 35 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 661 | #9 of 331 | #8 of 39 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.4:1 | #94 of 131 | #19 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.1% | #60 of 131 | #19 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 37.5% | #93 of 209 | #20 of 36 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.6% | #23 of 36 | #7 of 13 |
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
661
+31 (+5%) vs 2020
-6% since 1990-91, when it was 706
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
was 17.0:1
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 | 661 | 42.9 | 15.4:1 | 38% (248) |
| 2023-24 | 659 | 42.5 | 15.5:1 | 30% (196) |
| 2022-23 | 682 | 39 | 17.5:1 | 27% (182) |
| 2020-21 | 630 | 37 | 17.0:1 | 36% (229) |
| 2017-18 | 620 | 39.4 | 15.7:1 | 30% (183) |
| 2015-16 | 660 | 38 | 17.4:1 | 33% (219) |
| 2010-11 | 602 | 40 | 15.1:1 | 22% (132) |
| 2000-01 | 731 | 45 | 16.2:1 | 16% (115) |
| 1990-91 | 706 | 35 | 20.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for John F. Kennedy Elementary - 57.
Since 2017-18: students up 7% (620 to 661); teachers up 9% (39.4 to 42.9).
About John F. Kennedy Elementary - 57
Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is home to John F. Kennedy Elementary - 57, a high-enrollment elementary school. It has an enrollment of 661 students in kindergarten through 5. On average, elementary schools in South Dakota enroll around 204, and this school is 224% above that mark.
Sioux Falls School District 49-5 enrolls 25,060 students in 44 schools, including John F. Kennedy Elementary - 57.
Of every 100 students at John F. Kennedy Elementary - 57, about 73 are White. Other reported shares: 9% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 7% Black, and 3% Native American. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, John F. Kennedy Elementary - 57 scores 45%.
On staff are 42.9 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 15.4:1. It is about the same as the 15.4:1 average for elementary schools in South Dakota. About 38% of students at John F. Kennedy Elementary - 57 are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
John F. Kennedy Elementary - 57 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 82% of South Dakota public elementary schools.
In South Dakota, John F. Kennedy Elementary - 57 is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 57.8% actual against a predicted 47.6%.
For Minnehaha County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $76,880 a year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Minnehaha County number 83, with about 34,919 students.
A public school about 0.9 miles away, Roosevelt High School - 03, is the closest to John F. Kennedy Elementary - 57. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On proficiency, John F. Kennedy Elementary - 57 is ahead of the 50.9% nearby average, ranking 2nd of 6.
The school's federal locale classification is City: Mid-size.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment rose 5%. The school's ratio dropped from 17.0:1 to 15.4:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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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
Other John F. Kennedy Elementary schools
9 other US public schools in 4 states are named John F. Kennedy Elementary. John F. Kennedy Elementary - 57 is the 2nd largest of the 10.
- John F. Kennedy ElementaryRiverside, CA · 864 students
- John F. Kennedy ElementaryDinuba, CA · 488 students
- John F. Kennedy Elementary SchoolJAMESBURG, NJ · 477 students
- John F. Kennedy ElementaryNewark, CA · 455 students
- John F. Kennedy ElementaryIndio, CA · 390 students
Nearby schools
- Roosevelt High School - 030.9 mi · 1,785
- Oscar Howe Elementary - 581.1 mi · 608
- RF Pettigrew Elementary - 171.2 mi · 846
- Avera Adolescent Addiction Care Program - 811.4 mi · 2
- Avera Behavioral Health Program - 821.4 mi · 9
- Tea Area Frontier Elementary - 052.0 mi · 292
Frequently asked questions
About John F. Kennedy Elementary - 57How large is John F. Kennedy Elementary - 57?
John F. Kennedy Elementary - 57 enrolls approximately 661 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does John F. Kennedy Elementary - 57 serve?
John F. Kennedy Elementary - 57 serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at John F. Kennedy Elementary - 57?
The student-to-teacher ratio at John F. Kennedy Elementary - 57 is approximately 15.4:1 (43 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at John F. Kennedy Elementary - 57?
At John F. Kennedy Elementary - 57, the student body is approximately 73% White, 7% Hispanic, 7% Black, 2% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is John F. Kennedy Elementary - 57 public or private?
John F. Kennedy Elementary - 57 is a public K-12 school, overseen by Sioux Falls School District 49-5.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.