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Enrollment
559
Elementary
DISTRICT 419 · STATE 204
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HARRISBURG SCHOOL DISTRICT 41-2·NCES 463135000263
Liberty Elementary - 02
501 W Twin Creeks Dr, Harrisburg, SD 57032 · (605) 743-2567 · Lincoln County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY31-TOWNREGULAR SCHOOL559 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 20% of South Dakota public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
14.4:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.9:1 · STATE 15.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
16%
90 students
DISTRICT 19% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 18 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 106 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 82 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 86 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 97 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 94 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (106) is 13% larger than its 5th grade class (94).
Student demographics
31%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
48.0%
SD avg 50.3% . -9.4pp since 2022
Math
48.7%
SD avg 47.5% . +4.3pp since 2022
What this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 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 9 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 | 48.0% | 48.7% |
| 2023-24 | 38.2% | 42.9% |
| 2022-23 | 57.4% | 44.4% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of SD schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
40.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.4%
based on SD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 56% typical for South Dakota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Liberty Elementary - 02
Liberty Elementary - 02's state test result (40.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty Elementary - 02 this school | 559 | 16.1% | 40.7% |
| Tea Area Legacy Elementary - 01 Tea | 538 | 14.5% | 64.4% |
| Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07 Brookings | 509 | 12.4% | 64.2% |
| Creekside Elementary - 07 Spearfish | 553 | 23.0% | 54.1% |
| Robert Bennis Elementary - 05 Brandon | 542 | 10.1% | 69.5% |
| Fred Assam Elementary - 06 Sioux Falls | 531 | 7.7% | 89.9% |
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 Liberty Elementary - 02 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In South Dakota | In Lincoln County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.7% | #138 of 193 | #10 of 12 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.7% | #111 of 199 ▲ 24 | #10 of 12 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.0% | #112 of 202 ▲ 37 | #10 of 12 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 559 | #17 of 331 | #1 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #78 of 131 | #7 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 30.7% | #89 of 131 | #7 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 16.1% | #190 of 209 | #9 of 12 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +9.6% | #19 of 36 | 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
559
-17 (-3%) vs 2020
+51% since 1990-91, when it was 370
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 15.2:1
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 | 559 | 38.8 | 14.4:1 | 16% (90) |
| 2023-24 | 532 | 37.9 | 14.0:1 | 9% (47) |
| 2022-23 | 565 | 39.6 | 14.3:1 | 11% (63) |
| 2020-21 | 576 | 38 | 15.2:1 | 11% (64) |
| 2017-18 | 510 | 36.1 | 14.1:1 | 13% (68) |
| 2015-16 | 464 | 33 | 14.1:1 | 15% (71) |
| 2010-11 | 631 | 45 | 14.0:1 | 24% (150) |
| 2000-01 | 433 | 26 | 16.6:1 | 12% (52) |
| 1990-91 | 370 | 18 | 20.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Liberty Elementary - 02.
Since 2017-18: students up 10% (510 to 559); teachers up 8% (36.1 to 38.8).
About Liberty Elementary - 02
Liberty Elementary - 02 is a high-enrollment elementary school based in Harrisburg, South Dakota. Students in pre-K through 5 attend the school, which enrolls 559 students. The average among elementary schools in South Dakota is roughly 204 students; this school is 174% larger than that.
Harrisburg School District 41-2 is the district for Liberty Elementary - 02. It has 11 schools and 6,222 students.
At Liberty Elementary - 02, White students make up 83% of the student body. After that, the student body is 7% Hispanic and 7% multiracial. Liberty Elementary - 02 has a diversity index of 31%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Teacher staffing is 38.8 full-time equivalents, or about 14.4 students per teacher. The 15.4:1 average for elementary schools in South Dakota is higher than this school's figure. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 16%. Across public schools in Lincoln County, the average is about the same, 18%.
Measured against South Dakota public elementary schools, Liberty Elementary - 02 receives a C-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
On allk12's BeatsExpectations measure, Liberty Elementary - 02 is among the bottom 10% of schools in South Dakota. Predicted: 56.4%. Actual: 40.7%.
Census estimates describe Lincoln County this way: median household income is about $99,166, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 44% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. Federal data list 26 public schools in Lincoln County, with a combined enrollment of about 10,530.
Harrisburg South Middle School - 03 is the public school closest to Liberty Elementary - 02, about 0.6 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, Liberty Elementary - 02 places 7th out of 8 schools in its immediate area.
The federal government classifies Liberty Elementary - 02's location as Town: Fringe.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count declined from 576 to 559.
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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
- Harrisburg North Middle School - 08Middle · 534 students
- Harrisburg South Middle School - 03Middle · 519 students
- Horizon Elementary - 09Elementary · 458 students
- Freedom Elementary - 06Elementary · 442 students
- Adventure Elementary - 10Elementary · 440 students
Other schools in Harrisburg
- Harrisburg High School - 01High · 1,806 students
- Harrisburg South Middle School - 03Middle · 519 students
- Freedom Elementary - 06Elementary · 442 students
Other Liberty Elementary schools
68 other US public schools in 28 states are named Liberty Elementary. Liberty Elementary - 02 is the 28th largest of the 69.
- Liberty ElementaryVictorville, CA · 1,014 students
- Liberty Elementary SchoolCanton, GA · 977 students
- Liberty ElementaryClarksville, TN · 866 students
- Liberty ElementarySanta Maria, CA · 865 students
- Liberty ElementaryTulare, CA · 861 students
Nearby schools
- Harrisburg South Middle School - 030.6 mi · 519
- Harrisburg High School - 011.1 mi · 1,806
- Freedom Elementary - 061.5 mi · 442
- Adventure Elementary - 103.1 mi · 440
- Harrisburg North Middle School - 083.7 mi · 534
- Endeavor Elementary - 073.8 mi · 358
Frequently asked questions
About Liberty Elementary - 02How large is Liberty Elementary - 02?
Liberty Elementary - 02 enrolls approximately 559 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Liberty Elementary - 02 serve?
Liberty Elementary - 02 serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Liberty Elementary - 02?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Liberty Elementary - 02 is approximately 14.4:1 (39 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Liberty Elementary - 02?
Student demographics at Liberty Elementary - 02 are roughly 83% White, 7% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Liberty Elementary - 02 in?
Liberty Elementary - 02 is part of Harrisburg School District 41-2.
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