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Enrollment
447
Elementary
DISTRICT 466 · STATE 204
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SIOUX FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT 49-5·NCES 466627000598
Laura Wilder Elementary - 31
2300 S Lyndale Ave, Sioux Falls, SD 57105 · (605) 367-4570 · Minnehaha County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL447 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 20% of South Dakota public elementary schools
- C-Test 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
14.8:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 15.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
298 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 | 71 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 83 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 82 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 80 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 68 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (71) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (68).
Student demographics
68%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
34.0%
SD avg 50.3% . +3.1pp since 2022
Math
39.4%
SD avg 47.5% . +4.3pp since 2022
What this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 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 3 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 4 points.
SD Smarter Balanced results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 34.0% | 39.4% |
| 2023-24 | 32.4% | 35.7% |
| 2022-23 | 30.9% | 35.1% |
% 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
30.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.7%
based on SD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% 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 Wilder Elementary - 31
Laura Wilder Elementary - 31's state test result (30.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laura Wilder Elementary - 31 this school | 447 | 66.7% | 30.4% |
| Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66 Sioux Falls | 472 | 61.4% | 36.0% |
| Oscar Howe Elementary - 58 Sioux Falls | 608 | 52.0% | 43.8% |
| Renberg Elementary - 42 Renner | 155 | 56.1% | 38.0% |
| Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54 Sioux Falls | 681 | 46.5% | 60.0% |
| 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 Laura Wilder Elementary - 31 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In South Dakota | In Minnehaha County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.4% | #167 of 193 | #27 of 35 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.4% | #152 of 199 ▲ 12 | #25 of 35 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.0% | #162 of 202 ▲ 5 | #26 of 35 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 447 | #40 of 331 | #17 of 39 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.8:1 | #83 of 131 | #13 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.4% | #15 of 131 | #10 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.7% | #37 of 209 | #10 of 36 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.5% | #28 of 87 | #4 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
447
+23 (+5%) vs 2020
-22% since 1990-91, when it was 573
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
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 | 447 | 30.2 | 14.8:1 | 67% (298) |
| 2023-24 | 485 | 30.9 | 15.7:1 | 57% (275) |
| 2022-23 | 448 | 31.5 | 14.2:1 | 49% (218) |
| 2020-21 | 424 | 31 | 13.7:1 | 62% (263) |
| 2017-18 | 529 | 33.2 | 15.9:1 | 52% (275) |
| 2015-16 | 526 | 31 | 17.0:1 | 58% (305) |
| 2010-11 | 367 | 23 | 16.0:1 | 54% (197) |
| 2000-01 | 430 | 26 | 16.5:1 | 25% (108) |
| 1990-91 | 573 | 28 | 20.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Laura Wilder Elementary - 31.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (529 to 447); teachers down 9% (33.2 to 30.2).
About Laura Wilder Elementary - 31
In Sioux Falls, South Dakota, part of Minnehaha County, Laura Wilder Elementary - 31 is an elementary school. The school had 447 students in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25. Average enrollment for elementary schools in South Dakota is about 204, so this school runs 119% above that.
Across its 44 schools, Sioux Falls School District 49-5 enrolls 25,060 students. Laura Wilder Elementary - 31 is one of those schools.
White students are the majority at Laura Wilder Elementary - 31, with 51% of enrollment. It is also 15% Hispanic, 13% Black, 12% multiracial, and 9% Native American. Minnehaha County's residents are about 80% White, 29 points above the school's share. Laura Wilder Elementary - 31's diversity index is 68%, against a US figure of 70%.
The school has about 14.8 students per teacher and 30.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is close to the 15.4:1 average for elementary schools in South Dakota. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 67%. That rate is above the 42% average among public schools in Minnehaha County.
Laura Wilder Elementary - 31 is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 20% of South Dakota public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Laura Wilder Elementary - 31 would be expected to post about 35.7%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 30.4%.
Laura Wilder Elementary - 31 is located in Minnehaha County, where the median household income is $76,880, roughly 35% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Laura Wilder Elementary - 31 is one of 83 public schools in the county.
Of nearby public schools, Edison Middle School - 06 is the closest, at about 0.3 miles. Laura Wilder Elementary - 31 has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 49.2%, higher than Laura Wilder Elementary - 31's 30.4%.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Mid-size. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment grew 5% from its 2020-21 level of 424. The ratio of students to teachers went from 13.7:1 to 14.8:1 over the same years.
The Laura Wilder Elementary - 31 community page is open for posts about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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
- Edison Middle School - 060.3 mi · 937
- Sonia Sotomayor Elementary - 650.7 mi · 690
- Community Campus - 410.8 mi · 77
- Garfield Elementary - 191.1 mi · 574
- Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 661.2 mi · 472
- Lowell Elementary - 281.2 mi · 426
Frequently asked questions
About Laura Wilder Elementary - 31How many students attend Laura Wilder Elementary - 31?
Laura Wilder Elementary - 31 enrolls approximately 447 students in grades KG-05.
Is Laura Wilder Elementary - 31 an elementary, middle, or high school?
Laura Wilder Elementary - 31 is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Laura Wilder Elementary - 31 have?
Laura Wilder Elementary - 31 employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.8:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Laura Wilder Elementary - 31?
At Laura Wilder Elementary - 31, the student body is approximately 51% White, 15% Hispanic, 13% Black, 1% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Is Laura Wilder Elementary - 31 public or private?
Laura Wilder Elementary - 31 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.