Enrollment
291
Elementary
DISTRICT 466 · STATE 204
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SIOUX FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT 49-5·NCES 466627000597
Laura B. Anderson Elementary - 10
1600 N Wayland Ave, Sioux Falls, SD 57103 · (605) 367-6130 · Minnehaha County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL291 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 16% of South Dakota public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
11.3:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 15.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
85%
248 students
DISTRICT 58% · 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 | 46 | 16% |
| Kindergarten | 34 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 49 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 42 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 39 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 43 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 38 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (34) is 11% smaller than its 5th grade class (38).
Student demographics
74%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
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SD Smarter Balanced 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
28.7%
SD avg 50.3% . +0.8pp since 2022
Math
27.0%
SD avg 47.5% . +1.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 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 up about 1 points.
SD Smarter Balanced results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 28.7% | 27.0% |
| 2023-24 | 31.3% | 19.7% |
| 2022-23 | 27.9% | 26.0% |
% 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
23.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
28.1%
based on SD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 28% 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 Laura B. Anderson Elementary - 10
Laura B. Anderson Elementary - 10's state test result (23.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laura B. Anderson Elementary - 10 this school | 291 | 85.2% | 23.8% |
| Lowell Elementary - 28 Sioux Falls | 426 | 87.3% | 29.7% |
| Garfield Elementary - 19 Sioux Falls | 574 | 88.3% | 20.4% |
| Hayward Elementary - 38 Sioux Falls | 728 | 83.5% | 17.4% |
| Rosa Parks Elementary - 15 Sioux Falls | 618 | 59.4% | 34.0% |
| Hawthorne Elementary - 56 Sioux Falls | 443 | 100.0% | 16.9% |
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 Laura B. Anderson Elementary - 10 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In South Dakota | In Minnehaha County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.8% | #177 of 193 | #30 of 35 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.0% | #179 of 199 ▲ 9 | #29 of 35 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.7% | #176 of 202 ▼ 2 | #30 of 35 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 291 | #99 of 331 | #29 of 39 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.3:1 | #15 of 131 | #2 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.6% | #6 of 131 | #6 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 85.2% | #28 of 209 | #5 of 36 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.4% | #15 of 87 | #2 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
291
-65 (-18%) vs 2020
-14% since 1990-91, when it was 340
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
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 | 291 | 25.7 | 11.3:1 | 85% (248) |
| 2023-24 | 330 | 26.9 | 12.3:1 | 76% (250) |
| 2022-23 | 355 | 29.4 | 12.1:1 | 73% (258) |
| 2020-21 | 356 | 26 | 13.7:1 | 83% (297) |
| 2017-18 | 375 | 27.1 | 13.8:1 | 77% (288) |
| 2015-16 | 413 | 27 | 15.3:1 | 85% (350) |
| 2010-11 | 327 | 27 | 12.1:1 | 81% (264) |
| 2000-01 | 315 | 22 | 14.3:1 | 60% (190) |
| 1990-91 | 340 | 21 | 16.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Laura B. Anderson Elementary - 10.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (375 to 291); teachers down 5% (27.1 to 25.7).
About Laura B. Anderson Elementary - 10
A mid-sized elementary school in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Laura B. Anderson Elementary - 10 is part of Sioux Falls School District 49-5. The school teaches pre-K through 5 and enrolls 291 students. That puts enrollment 43% bigger than the 204-student average for elementary schools in South Dakota.
District-wide, Sioux Falls School District 49-5 has 44 schools and 25,060 students.
At Laura B. Anderson Elementary - 10, Hispanic students make up the biggest share, 36%. The remaining students are 33% White, 11% Black, 9% Native American, and 9% multiracial. Among people living in Minnehaha County, the Hispanic share is about 7%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 74, compared with 70 nationally.
Classroom staffing at Laura B. Anderson Elementary - 10 totals 25.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 11.3:1. The average for elementary schools in South Dakota, 15.4:1, is higher. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Laura B. Anderson Elementary - 10 is about 85%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Minnehaha County is 42%.
Laura B. Anderson Elementary - 10 holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 16% of South Dakota public elementary schools.
Laura B. Anderson Elementary - 10's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (23.8%) and its predicted rate (28.1%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of South Dakota schools.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Minnehaha County show that the median household earns about $76,880 a year, about 35% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Across Minnehaha County, 83 public schools serve about 34,919 students.
Measured in a straight line, Whittier Middle School - 08 is about 0.9 miles from Laura B. Anderson Elementary - 10. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Laura B. Anderson Elementary - 10 is 4th of 6 on proficiency.
Laura B. Anderson Elementary - 10 falls in the City: Mid-size locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Federal enrollment counts decreased from 356 (2020-21) to 291 (2024-25). From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 13.7:1 to 11.3:1.
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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
Nearby schools
- Whittier Middle School - 080.9 mi · 675
- Terry Redlin Elementary - 111.0 mi · 412
- Summit Oaks-Residential - 481.1 mi · 20
- ARISE Shelter Care - 711.1 mi · 4
- Eugene Field A+ Elementary - 161.4 mi · 444
- Hawthorne Elementary - 561.5 mi · 443
Frequently asked questions
About Laura B. Anderson Elementary - 10What is the total enrollment at Laura B. Anderson Elementary - 10?
Laura B. Anderson Elementary - 10 enrolls approximately 291 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Laura B. Anderson Elementary - 10 serve?
Laura B. Anderson Elementary - 10 serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Laura B. Anderson Elementary - 10?
Approximately 11.3:1 students per teacher at Laura B. Anderson Elementary - 10.
What is the student diversity at Laura B. Anderson Elementary - 10?
Student demographics at Laura B. Anderson Elementary - 10 are roughly 33% White, 36% Hispanic, 11% Black, 3% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Laura B. Anderson Elementary - 10 in?
Laura B. Anderson Elementary - 10 is part of Sioux Falls School District 49-5.
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