Enrollment
290
Elementary
DISTRICT 192 · STATE 204
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MITCHELL SCHOOL DISTRICT 17-2·NCES 464839000441
Longfellow Elementary - 05
110 N Mentzer St, Mitchell, SD 57301 · (605) 995-3092 · Davison County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL290 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 67% of South Dakota public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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
9.6:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.5:1 · STATE 15.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
46%
132 students
DISTRICT 37% · 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 | 55 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 41 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 45 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 51 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 45 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (55) is 22% larger than its 5th grade class (45).
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 40% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Longfellow Elementary - 05→Mitchell Middle School - 02
Based on grade levels within Mitchell School District 17-2. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
SD Smarter Balanced 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
49.3%
SD avg 50.3% . -4.1pp since 2022
Math
63.2%
SD avg 47.5% . -0.3pp since 2022
What this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 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 4 points since 2022, while math scores have held steady.
SD Smarter Balanced results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.3% | 63.2% |
| 2023-24 | 56.5% | 66.0% |
| 2022-23 | 53.4% | 63.5% |
% 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
52.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.4%
based on SD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 Longfellow Elementary - 05
Longfellow Elementary - 05's state test result (52.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Longfellow Elementary - 05 this school | 290 | 45.5% | 52.0% |
| Mellette Elementary - 07 Watertown | 267 | 47.6% | 44.1% |
| Gertie Belle Rogers Elementary - 04 Mitchell | 379 | 41.2% | 51.0% |
| McKinley Early Childhood Center - 06 Watertown | 296 | 38.2% | N/A |
| Stewart Elementary - 05 Yankton | 271 | 38.0% | 45.6% |
| Lincoln Elementary - 04 Yankton | 416 | 43.0% | 49.1% |
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 Longfellow Elementary - 05 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In South Dakota | In Davison County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.0% | #88 of 193 | N/A |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 63.2% | #50 of 199 ▼ 13 | N/A |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.3% | #107 of 202 ▼ 47 | N/A |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 290 | #100 of 331 | #3 of 6 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.6:1 | #4 of 131 | N/A |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.4% | #56 of 131 | N/A |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 45.5% | #65 of 209 | N/A |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.4% | #25 of 87 | 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
290
-34 (-10%) vs 2020
-35% since 1990-91, when it was 443
Student : Teacher
9.6:1
was 11.6:1
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 | 290 | 30.1 | 9.6:1 | 46% (132) |
| 2023-24 | 312 | 30.6 | 10.2:1 | 38% (120) |
| 2022-23 | 318 | 30.6 | 10.4:1 | 44% (141) |
| 2020-21 | 324 | 28 | 11.6:1 | 48% (154) |
| 2017-18 | 347 | 30.7 | 11.3:1 | 41% (141) |
| 2015-16 | 384 | 30 | 12.8:1 | 52% (201) |
| 2010-11 | 256 | 22 | 11.6:1 | 51% (130) |
| 2000-01 | 249 | 16 | 15.6:1 | 35% (87) |
| 1990-91 | 443 | 24 | 18.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Longfellow Elementary - 05.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (347 to 290); teachers down 2% (30.7 to 30.1).
About Longfellow Elementary - 05
Longfellow Elementary - 05, a medium-sized elementary school, is located in Mitchell, South Dakota. Classes run from kindergarten through 5, and the school has 290 students. Against the 204-student average for elementary schools in South Dakota, enrollment here is 42% higher.
Longfellow Elementary - 05 is among 9 schools run by Mitchell School District 17-2, which serves 2,628 students.
Longfellow Elementary - 05's enrollment is 71% White. Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, and 8% Native American. By comparison, Davison County residents are about 90% White. The chance that two students picked at random at Longfellow Elementary - 05 belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 47%.
Its 30.1 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 9.6:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in South Dakota is 15.4:1, higher than at this school. The school's lunch program data list 46% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That rate is above the 38% average among public schools in Davison County.
allk12 grades Longfellow Elementary - 05 a B+. The grade compares the school only with South Dakota public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Test results at Longfellow Elementary - 05 are 7.6 points above what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (52.0% actual, 44.4% predicted).
Longfellow Elementary - 05 is located in Davison County, where median household income is about $66,208, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 23%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Longfellow Elementary - 05 is one of 13 public schools in Davison County, which together enroll about 3,137 students.
The shortest distance from Longfellow Elementary - 05 to another public school is about 0.6 miles, to Mitchell High School - 01. A five-mile radius around the school includes 6 other public schools. On state test proficiency, Longfellow Elementary - 05 ranks 2nd in a group of 4 nearby schools.
NCES lists the school's locale as Town: Remote. That means it sits in a town far from an urbanized area.
The student count in 2024-25 was 290, 10% below the 324 of 2020-21. The number of students per teacher fell from 11.6 to 9.6 over 4 years.
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Davison County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
19,952
Census ACS
Median income
$66,208
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
13
3,137 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Mitchell School District 17-2
- Mitchell High School - 01High · 879 students
- Mitchell Middle School - 02Middle · 578 students
- L. B. Williams Elementary - 03Elementary · 438 students
- Gertie Belle Rogers Elementary - 04Elementary · 379 students
- Rosedale Colony Elementary - 11Elementary · 21 students
- Abbott House High School - 07High · 18 students
Other schools in Mitchell
- Mitchell High School - 01High · 879 students
- Mitchell Middle School - 02Middle · 578 students
- L. B. Williams Elementary - 03Elementary · 438 students
- Gertie Belle Rogers Elementary - 04Elementary · 379 students
- Rosedale Colony Elementary - 11Elementary · 21 students
- Abbott House High School - 07High · 18 students
Other Longfellow Elementary schools
36 other US public schools in 18 states are named Longfellow Elementary. Longfellow Elementary - 05 is the 26th largest of the 37.
- Longfellow ElementaryLong Beach, CA · 904 students
- Longfellow ElementaryBakersfield, CA · 780 students
- Longfellow ElementaryMilwaukee, WI · 773 students
- Longfellow ElementaryRiverside, CA · 701 students
- LONGFELLOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLIDAHO FALLS, ID · 577 students
Nearby schools
- Mitchell High School - 010.6 mi · 879
- Gertie Belle Rogers Elementary - 041.0 mi · 379
- Abbott House Elementary - 061.0 mi · 13
- Abbott House High School - 071.0 mi · 18
- Mitchell Middle School - 021.2 mi · 578
- L. B. Williams Elementary - 031.3 mi · 438
Frequently asked questions
About Longfellow Elementary - 05How large is Longfellow Elementary - 05?
Longfellow Elementary - 05 enrolls approximately 290 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Longfellow Elementary - 05 serve?
Longfellow Elementary - 05 serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Longfellow Elementary - 05 have?
Longfellow Elementary - 05 employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.6:1.
What is the student diversity at Longfellow Elementary - 05?
Student demographics at Longfellow Elementary - 05 are roughly 71% White, 11% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Longfellow Elementary - 05 in?
Longfellow Elementary - 05 is part of Mitchell School District 17-2.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.