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What's one thing Memorial Middle School - 04 gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
1,133
Middle
DISTRICT 767 · STATE 187
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SIOUX FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT 49-5·NCES 466627001070
Memorial Middle School - 04
1401 S Sertoma Ave, Sioux Falls, SD 57106 · (605) 362-2785 · Minnehaha County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL1,133 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 89% of South Dakota public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
68 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 13.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
31%
349 students
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 42%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 384 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 380 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 369 | 33% |
Student demographics
45%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
61.9%
SD avg 50.3% . +3.4pp since 2022
Math
58.3%
SD avg 47.5% . +3.3pp since 2022
What this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 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 3 points.
SD Smarter Balanced results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 61.9% | 58.3% |
| 2023-24 | 64.3% | 59.1% |
| 2022-23 | 58.5% | 55.0% |
% 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
58.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.4%
based on SD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 Memorial Middle School - 04
Memorial Middle School - 04's state test result (58.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memorial Middle School - 04 this school | 1,133 | 30.8% | 58.5% |
| Patrick Henry Middle School - 07 Sioux Falls | 925 | 35.6% | 57.9% |
| Brandon Valley Intermediate - 07 Brandon | 829 | 20.6% | 70.7% |
| George S. Mickelson Middle School - 02 Brookings | 780 | 21.5% | 41.1% |
| Tea Area Middle School - 02 Tea | 583 | 21.8% | 51.9% |
| Douglas Middle School - 01 Box Elder | 633 | 37.8% | 36.1% |
Matched among South Dakota middle 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 Memorial Middle School - 04 ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In South Dakota | In Minnehaha County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.5% | #8 of 64 | #4 of 13 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.3% | #8 of 64 ▼ 2 | #4 of 13 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 61.9% | #16 of 65 ▼ 7 | #5 of 13 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,133 | #1 of 165 | #1 of 14 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.7:1 | #37 of 42 | #9 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.2% | #18 of 42 | #6 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 30.8% | #29 of 65 | #6 of 13 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.9% | #5 of 26 | #3 of 6 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
1,133
-256 (-18%) vs 2020
+32% since 2000-01, when it was 859
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
was 17.6:1
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 | 1,133 | 67.8 | 16.7:1 | 31% (349) |
| 2023-24 | 1,138 | 68.5 | 16.6:1 | 23% (262) |
| 2022-23 | 1,168 | 69.4 | 16.8:1 | 18% (214) |
| 2020-21 | 1,389 | 79 | 17.6:1 | 26% (355) |
| 2017-18 | 1,364 | 83.4 | 16.4:1 | 19% (258) |
| 2015-16 | 1,268 | 73 | 17.4:1 | 22% (285) |
| 2010-11 | 1,025 | 58 | 17.7:1 | 20% (204) |
| 2000-01 | 859 | 49 | 17.5:1 | 9% (80) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Memorial Middle School - 04.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (1,364 to 1,133); teachers down 19% (83.4 to 67.8).
About Memorial Middle School - 04
Memorial Middle School - 04 is a large middle school in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, one of the schools in Sioux Falls School District 49-5. The student body numbers 1,133 students, from grades 6 through 8. An average school in this group (middle schools in South Dakota) has about 187 students.
The 44 schools in Sioux Falls School District 49-5 enroll 25,060 students altogether, Memorial Middle School - 04 among them.
Memorial Middle School - 04 is 73% White by enrollment. Other students are 9% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 6% Black, and 3% Native American. Pick two students at random and there is a 45% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Memorial Middle School - 04 operates with 67.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 16.7:1. That is higher than the 13.4:1 average for middle schools in South Dakota. About 31% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. Compared with the 42% average for public schools in Minnehaha County, the school's rate is lower.
allk12 grades Memorial Middle School - 04 an A. The grade compares the school only with South Dakota public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Memorial Middle School - 04, the prediction is 50.4% and the result is 58.5%.
County data help place the school in context: in Minnehaha County, the median household income is $76,880, about 35% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. In all, Minnehaha County has 83 public schools and roughly 34,919 students.
The closest other public school is Discovery Elementary - 26, about 0.1 miles away. Memorial Middle School - 04 has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Memorial Middle School - 04 at 1st of 7.
The school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000, according to its NCES locale (City: Mid-size).
Federal data show an 18% enrollment decrease, from 1,389 in 2020-21 to 1,133 in 2024-25.
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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
- Edison Middle School - 06Middle · 937 students
- Patrick Henry Middle School - 07Middle · 925 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
- Edison Middle School - 06Middle · 937 students
- Patrick Henry Middle School - 07Middle · 925 students
Other Memorial Middle schools
24 other US public schools in 13 states are named Memorial Middle. Memorial Middle School - 04 is the 2nd largest of the 25.
- Memorial Middle SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 1,236 students
- Memorial Middle SchoolEDINBURG, TX · 1,045 students
- MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOLTAMPA, FL · 973 students
- Memorial Middle SchoolMentor, OH · 852 students
- Memorial Middle SchoolConyers, GA · 774 students
Nearby schools
- Discovery Elementary - 260.1 mi · 873
- Oscar Howe Elementary - 581.2 mi · 608
- Tea Area Frontier Elementary - 051.2 mi · 292
- Roosevelt High School - 031.2 mi · 1,785
- Hayward Elementary - 381.6 mi · 728
- RF Pettigrew Elementary - 171.9 mi · 846
Frequently asked questions
About Memorial Middle School - 04How large is Memorial Middle School - 04?
Memorial Middle School - 04 enrolls approximately 1,133 students in grades 06-08.
Is Memorial Middle School - 04 an elementary, middle, or high school?
Memorial Middle School - 04 is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Memorial Middle School - 04?
Approximately 16.7:1 students per teacher at Memorial Middle School - 04.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Memorial Middle School - 04?
At Memorial Middle School - 04, the student body is approximately 73% White, 9% Hispanic, 6% Black, 1% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Memorial Middle School - 04 public or private?
Memorial Middle School - 04 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.