Lincoln Building - 44

As a very small high school, Lincoln Building - 44 serves students in Rapid City, South Dakota. The school covers grade 12 and reported 23 students in 2024-25. That puts enrollment 90% below the 225-student average for high schools in South Dakota.

Enrollment across the 26 schools in Rapid City Area School District 51-4 totals 12,610 students.

More than half of the students at Lincoln Building - 44 are White (57%). Other reported shares: 22% multiracial and 22% Native American. That compares with about 79% White among all Pennington County residents.

Staffing at Lincoln Building - 44 comes to 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 23.0:1. By comparison, the average for high schools in South Dakota is 20.6:1. Lincoln Building - 44 counts 61% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The 41% average for public schools in Pennington County is 20 points lower.

In Pennington County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $74,517, about 35% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. There are 41 public schools in the county, enrolling about 16,186, Lincoln Building - 44 among them.

Lincoln Building - 44 is about 0.4 miles from Rapid City Online High School - 92, its nearest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

Locale: City: Small. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.

In 2024-25, the school enrolled 23, down from 26 in 2020-21. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio increased to 23.0:1, from 13.0:1.

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