Enrollment
368
Elementary
DISTRICT 386 · STATE 204
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RAPID CITY AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT 51-4·NCES 465982000539
Knollwood Heights Elementary - 08
1701 Downing St, Rapid City, SD 57701 · (605) 394-1851 · Pennington County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL368 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 6% of South Dakota public elementary schools
- FTest 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
13.0:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.6:1 · STATE 15.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
368 students
DISTRICT 48% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 60 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 52 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 54 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 74 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 57 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is 5% larger than its 5th grade class (57).
Student demographics
67%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
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SD Smarter Balanced 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
19.9%
SD avg 50.3% . -3.0pp since 2022
Math
18.3%
SD avg 47.5% . +0.9pp since 2022
What this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 20 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 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 3 points since 2022, while math scores have held steady.
SD Smarter Balanced results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 19.9% | 18.3% |
| 2023-24 | 17.2% | 13.5% |
| 2022-23 | 22.9% | 17.4% |
% 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
15.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.1%
based on SD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 22% 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 Knollwood Heights Elementary - 08
Knollwood Heights Elementary - 08's state test result (15.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knollwood Heights Elementary - 08 this school | 368 | 100.0% | 15.9% |
| General Beadle Elementary - 01 Rapid City | 483 | 100.0% | 12.4% |
| South Park Elementary - 16 Rapid City | 313 | 100.0% | 28.1% |
| Horace Mann Elementary - 07 Rapid City | 274 | 100.0% | 17.7% |
| Robbinsdale Elementary - 14 Rapid City | 328 | 100.0% | 16.3% |
| Wagner Elementary - 02 Wagner | 333 | 100.0% | 32.6% |
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 Knollwood Heights Elementary - 08 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In South Dakota | In Pennington County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 15.9% | #188 of 193 | #17 of 18 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.3% | #189 of 199 ▲ 5 | #16 of 19 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 19.9% | #192 of 202 ▲ 1 | #17 of 19 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 368 | #70 of 331 | #10 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.0:1 | #43 of 131 | #2 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.2% | #19 of 131 | #4 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #7 of 209 | #2 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.4% | #22 of 87 | #2 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
368
+71 (+24%) vs 2020
-49% since 1990-91, when it was 715
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
was 10.6:1
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 | 368 | 28.3 | 13.0:1 | 100% (368) |
| 2023-24 | 357 | 25.6 | 13.9:1 | 100% (357) |
| 2022-23 | 357 | 27.4 | 13.0:1 | 100% (357) |
| 2020-21 | 297 | 28 | 10.6:1 | 100% (297) |
| 2017-18 | 451 | 32.9 | 13.7:1 | 100% (451) |
| 2015-16 | 482 | 34 | 14.2:1 | 100% (482) |
| 2010-11 | 563 | 43 | 13.1:1 | 81% (458) |
| 2000-01 | 473 | 33 | 14.3:1 | 69% (327) |
| 1990-91 | 715 | 32 | 22.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Knollwood Heights Elementary - 08.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (451 to 368); teachers down 14% (32.9 to 28.3).
About Knollwood Heights Elementary - 08
Knollwood Heights Elementary - 08 is a high-enrollment elementary school serving families in Rapid City, South Dakota. The school offers kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 368 students. The school is 80% above the average for elementary schools in South Dakota.
Rapid City Area School District 51-4 operates 26 schools. Combined enrollment is 12,610 students.
The largest group at Knollwood Heights Elementary - 08 is Native American students, at 49%. The school is also 21% White, 17% multiracial, and 12% Hispanic. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 67%.
The school's 28.3 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.0:1. Elementary schools in South Dakota have an average ratio of 15.4:1. At Knollwood Heights Elementary - 08, 100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That is higher than the 41% average for public schools in Pennington County.
Knollwood Heights Elementary - 08 earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 6% of South Dakota public elementary schools.
Knollwood Heights Elementary - 08's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (15.9%) and its predicted rate (22.1%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of South Dakota schools.
For Pennington County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $74,517 a year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Public schools in Pennington County number 41, with about 16,186 students.
A public school about 0.3 miles away, North Middle School - 35, is the closest to Knollwood Heights Elementary - 08. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Knollwood Heights Elementary - 08 is 3rd of 4 on proficiency.
NCES describes the area around Knollwood Heights Elementary - 08 as City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment rose 24% over 4 years, reaching 368 in 2024-25. Its ratio of students to teachers was 10.6:1 in 2020-21, and 13.0:1 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
Nearby schools
- North Middle School - 350.3 mi · 418
- General Beadle Elementary - 010.6 mi · 483
- Horace Mann Elementary - 071.2 mi · 274
- Wellfully - 651.2 mi · 7
- Central High School - 411.4 mi · 1,998
- Jefferson Building - 641.6 mi · 98
Frequently asked questions
About Knollwood Heights Elementary - 08How many students attend Knollwood Heights Elementary - 08?
Knollwood Heights Elementary - 08 enrolls approximately 368 students in grades KG-05.
Is Knollwood Heights Elementary - 08 an elementary, middle, or high school?
Knollwood Heights Elementary - 08 is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Knollwood Heights Elementary - 08 have?
Knollwood Heights Elementary - 08 employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.0:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Knollwood Heights Elementary - 08?
At Knollwood Heights Elementary - 08, the student body is approximately 21% White, 12% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 17% Two or more.
Is Knollwood Heights Elementary - 08 public or private?
Knollwood Heights Elementary - 08 is a public K-12 school, overseen by Rapid City Area School District 51-4.
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