Enrollment
340
Elementary
DISTRICT 419 · STATE 204
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HARRISBURG SCHOOL DISTRICT 41-2·NCES 463135001288
Journey Elementary - 05
6801 S Grange Ave, Sioux Falls, SD 57108 · (605) 743-2567 · Lincoln County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL340 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 82% of South Dakota public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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
13.2:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.9:1 · STATE 15.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
16%
56 students
DISTRICT 19% · STATE 42%
Community
0
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 | 1 | 0% |
| Kindergarten | 50 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 57 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 57 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 51 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (50) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (61).
Student demographics
36%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 34% · 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
65.5%
SD avg 50.3% . +6.3pp since 2022
Math
67.9%
SD avg 47.5% . +16.2pp since 2022
What this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 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 6 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 16 points.
SD Smarter Balanced results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.5% | 67.9% |
| 2023-24 | 64.1% | 62.9% |
| 2022-23 | 59.2% | 51.7% |
% 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
62.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.3%
based on SD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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 Journey Elementary - 05
Journey Elementary - 05's state test result (62.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Journey Elementary - 05 this school | 340 | 16.5% | 62.5% |
| Endeavor Elementary - 07 Sioux Falls | 358 | 12.6% | 56.6% |
| C C Lee Elementary - 05 Aberdeen | 356 | 17.7% | 69.3% |
| Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07 Brookings | 509 | 12.4% | 64.2% |
| Tea Area Venture Elementary - 06 Tea | 379 | 20.6% | 58.9% |
| Hillcrest Elementary - 04 Brookings | 316 | 26.3% | 41.7% |
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 Journey Elementary - 05 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In South Dakota | In Lincoln County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.5% | #31 of 193 | #5 of 12 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.9% | #33 of 199 ▲ 15 | #5 of 12 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.5% | #28 of 202 ▲ 4 | #5 of 12 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 340 | #79 of 331 | #10 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #44 of 131 | #2 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.0% | #77 of 131 | #4 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 16.5% | #186 of 209 | #8 of 12 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.8% | #31 of 87 | N/A |
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
340
+12 (+4%) vs 2020
-12% since 2010-11, when it was 385
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 340 | 25.9 | 13.2:1 | 16% (56) |
| 2023-24 | 342 | 24.4 | 14.0:1 | 8% (27) |
| 2022-23 | 362 | 24.7 | 14.6:1 | 7% (24) |
| 2020-21 | 328 | 24 | 13.7:1 | 5% (15) |
| 2017-18 | 399 | 25.6 | 15.6:1 | 4% (17) |
| 2015-16 | 504 | 32 | 15.8:1 | 4% (22) |
| 2010-11 | 385 | 28 | 13.8:1 | 3% (12) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Journey Elementary - 05.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (399 to 340); teachers up 1% (25.6 to 25.9).
About Journey Elementary - 05
Journey Elementary - 05 is an elementary school located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in Lincoln County. The school's 340 students are in kindergarten through 5. Statewide, elementary schools in South Dakota average about 204 students each.
Federal data list 11 schools in Harrisburg School District 41-2, with 6,222 students enrolled.
Journey Elementary - 05's enrollment is 79% White. Other groups make up 6% Black, 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 3% Asian. County-wide, 90% of Lincoln County residents are White. By the diversity index, Journey Elementary - 05 comes in at 36%.
The school has about 13.2 students per teacher and 25.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average ratio among elementary schools in South Dakota is 15.4:1, higher than at this school. About 16% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch. That is close to the 18% average for public schools in Lincoln County.
The allk12 Grade for Journey Elementary - 05 is A-. Compared with South Dakota public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 82% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
A school with Journey Elementary - 05's lunch-eligibility share in South Dakota is predicted to score 56.3%. Journey Elementary - 05 scores 62.5%, 6.2 points above that line.
Census estimates describe Lincoln County this way: median household income is about $99,166, about 44% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 26 public schools in Lincoln County, with a combined enrollment of about 10,530.
The nearest other public school, Harrisburg North Middle School - 08, is about 1.3 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 52.9%; Journey Elementary - 05's is 62.5%, ranking 1st of 6.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is City: Mid-size.
Federal counts put enrollment at 328 in 2020-21 and 340 in 2024-25, a 4% rise.
Parents and students can post about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at Journey Elementary - 05. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Lincoln County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
70,638
Census ACS
Median income
$99,166
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
44%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
26
10,530 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Harrisburg School District 41-2
- Harrisburg High School - 01High · 1,806 students
- Liberty Elementary - 02Elementary · 559 students
- Harrisburg North Middle School - 08Middle · 534 students
- Harrisburg South Middle School - 03Middle · 519 students
- Horizon Elementary - 09Elementary · 458 students
- Freedom Elementary - 06Elementary · 442 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 Journey Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Journey Elementary. Journey Elementary - 05 is the 3rd largest of the 3.
- JOURNEY ELEMENTARYWENTZVILLE, MO · 595 students
- Journey ElementaryCasper, WY · 348 students
Nearby schools
- Harrisburg North Middle School - 081.3 mi · 534
- Endeavor Elementary - 071.5 mi · 358
- Explorer Elementary - 042.0 mi · 338
- Avera Behavioral Health Program - 822.1 mi · 9
- Avera Adolescent Addiction Care Program - 812.1 mi · 2
- Community Campus - 412.2 mi · 77
Frequently asked questions
About Journey Elementary - 05How many students attend Journey Elementary - 05?
Journey Elementary - 05 enrolls approximately 340 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Journey Elementary - 05 serve?
Journey Elementary - 05 serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Journey Elementary - 05 have?
Journey Elementary - 05 employs 26 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.2:1.
What is the student diversity at Journey Elementary - 05?
Student demographics at Journey Elementary - 05 are roughly 79% White, 5% Hispanic, 6% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Journey Elementary - 05?
Journey Elementary - 05 is overseen by Harrisburg School District 41-2 in Lincoln County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.