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Enrollment
478
Elementary
DISTRICT 386 · STATE 204
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RAPID CITY AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT 51-4·NCES 465982000549
Meadowbrook Elementary - 10
3125 W Flormann St, Rapid City, SD 57702 · (605) 394-1821 · Pennington County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL478 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 52% 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.
- 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
16.5:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.6:1 · STATE 15.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
25%
118 students
DISTRICT 48% · 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 | 64 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 74 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 72 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 85 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 76 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 107 | 22% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is 40% smaller than its 5th grade class (107).
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · 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
57.8%
SD avg 50.3% . +0.3pp since 2022
Math
51.9%
SD avg 47.5% . -4.9pp since 2022
What this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 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 down about 5 points.
SD Smarter Balanced results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 57.8% | 51.9% |
| 2023-24 | 57.8% | 51.0% |
| 2022-23 | 57.5% | 56.8% |
% 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
51.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.9%
based on SD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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 Meadowbrook Elementary - 10
Meadowbrook Elementary - 10's state test result (51.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meadowbrook Elementary - 10 this school | 478 | 24.7% | 51.7% |
| Madison Elementary - 07 Madison | 515 | 28.5% | 53.7% |
| Freedom Elementary - 06 Harrisburg | 442 | 23.3% | 37.8% |
| Camelot Intermediate - 06 Brookings | 523 | 21.4% | 44.2% |
| Beadle Elementary - 03 Yankton | 412 | 33.0% | 56.6% |
| Piedmont Valley Elementary - 05 Piedmont | 514 | 25.3% | 58.6% |
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 Meadowbrook Elementary - 10 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In South Dakota | In Pennington County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.7% | #89 of 193 | #5 of 18 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.9% | #99 of 199 ▲ 1 | #4 of 19 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.8% | #66 of 202 ▼ 12 | #1 of 19 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 478 | #30 of 331 | #5 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.5:1 | #111 of 131 | #13 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.6% | #52 of 131 | #14 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 24.7% | #154 of 209 | #17 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.3% | #40 of 87 | #5 of 14 |
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
478
+9 (+2%) vs 2020
-32% since 1990-91, when it was 707
Student : Teacher
16.5:1
was 13.8:1
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 | 478 | 28.9 | 16.5:1 | 25% (118) |
| 2023-24 | 454 | 27.9 | 16.3:1 | 15% (68) |
| 2022-23 | 464 | 30.1 | 15.4:1 | 20% (91) |
| 2020-21 | 469 | 34 | 13.8:1 | 17% (81) |
| 2017-18 | 545 | 31.5 | 17.3:1 | 21% (113) |
| 2015-16 | 537 | 30 | 17.9:1 | 27% (146) |
| 2010-11 | 553 | 33 | 16.8:1 | 17% (93) |
| 2000-01 | 492 | 29 | 17.0:1 | 11% (55) |
| 1990-91 | 707 | 34 | 20.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Meadowbrook Elementary - 10.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (545 to 478); teachers down 8% (31.5 to 28.9).
About Meadowbrook Elementary - 10
Meadowbrook Elementary - 10 is a large elementary school in Rapid City Area School District 51-4, located in Rapid City, South Dakota. The school enrolls 478 students in kindergarten through 5. That compares with an average of about 204 students for elementary schools in South Dakota.
Rapid City Area School District 51-4 is the local district for Meadowbrook Elementary - 10. It runs 26 schools with 12,610 students.
The largest group at Meadowbrook Elementary - 10 is White students, at 69%. Other groups make up 10% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, and 9% Native American. County-wide, 79% of Pennington County residents are White. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 50%.
There are 28.9 full-time-equivalent teachers at Meadowbrook Elementary - 10, giving a ratio of 16.5:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in South Dakota is 15.4:1. A total of 118 students, or 25%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Pennington County averages 41%, higher than here.
Among South Dakota public elementary schools, Meadowbrook Elementary - 10 outscored 52%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
Meadowbrook Elementary - 10 is 1.2 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (51.7% versus 52.9%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in South Dakota.
Looking at the county, Pennington County, 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. The county has 41 public schools and about 16,186 students.
Canyon Lake Elementary - 04 is about 0.6 miles from Meadowbrook Elementary - 10, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, Meadowbrook Elementary - 10 is 3rd among 6 schools close by.
Its location is classified as City: Small by the National Center for Education Statistics.
There was little change in enrollment from 2020-21 (469) to 2024-25 (478). By 2024-25, the school had 16.5 students per teacher, compared with 13.8 in 2020-21.
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Pennington County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
113,512
Census ACS
Median income
$74,517
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
41
16,186 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Rapid City Area School District 51-4
- Central High School - 41High · 1,998 students
- Stevens High School - 42High · 1,771 students
- South Middle School - 36Middle · 618 students
- Southwest Middle School - 38Middle · 614 students
- East Middle School - 30Middle · 613 students
- Valley View Elementary - 13Elementary · 605 students
Other schools in Rapid City
- Central High School - 41High · 1,998 students
- Stevens High School - 42High · 1,771 students
- South Middle School - 36Middle · 618 students
- Southwest Middle School - 38Middle · 614 students
- East Middle School - 30Middle · 613 students
- Valley View Elementary - 13Elementary · 605 students
Other Meadowbrook Elementary schools
12 other US public schools in 11 states are named Meadowbrook Elementary. Meadowbrook Elementary - 10 is the 7th largest of the 13.
- MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARYGOLDEN VALLEY, MN · 792 students
- MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLGAINESVILLE, FL · 791 students
- MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLFORT LAUDERDALE, FL · 693 students
- MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARYGLADSTONE, MO · 529 students
- Meadowbrook Elementary SchoolNOVI, MI · 518 students
Nearby schools
- Canyon Lake Elementary - 040.6 mi · 297
- West Middle School - 370.9 mi · 591
- Stevens High School - 421.2 mi · 1,771
- South Canyon Elementary - 151.6 mi · 274
- Southwest Middle School - 381.7 mi · 614
- Corral Drive Elementary - 211.7 mi · 439
Frequently asked questions
About Meadowbrook Elementary - 10How large is Meadowbrook Elementary - 10?
Meadowbrook Elementary - 10 enrolls approximately 478 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Meadowbrook Elementary - 10 serve?
Meadowbrook Elementary - 10 serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Meadowbrook Elementary - 10?
Approximately 16.5:1 students per teacher at Meadowbrook Elementary - 10.
How diverse is Meadowbrook Elementary - 10?
Meadowbrook Elementary - 10 reports a student body of 69% White, 10% Hispanic, 1% Black, 10% Two or more.
What district is Meadowbrook Elementary - 10 in?
Meadowbrook Elementary - 10 is part of Rapid City Area School District 51-4.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.