Enrollment
328
Elementary
DISTRICT 386 · STATE 204
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RAPID CITY AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT 51-4·NCES 465982000541
Robbinsdale Elementary - 14
424 E Indiana St, Rapid City, SD 57701 · (605) 394-1825 · Pennington County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL328 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 8% of South Dakota public elementary schools
- FTest 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
12.9:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.6:1 · STATE 15.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
328 students
DISTRICT 48% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 18 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 46 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 57 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 56 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 49 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 56 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 46 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (46) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (46).
Student demographics
69%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
16.6%
SD avg 50.3% . -11.3pp since 2022
Math
15.2%
SD avg 47.5% . -4.4pp since 2022
What this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 17 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 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 11 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 4 points.
SD Smarter Balanced results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 16.6% | 15.2% |
| 2023-24 | 18.2% | 16.2% |
| 2022-23 | 27.9% | 19.6% |
% 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
16.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.1%
based on SD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 22% 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 Robbinsdale Elementary - 14
Robbinsdale Elementary - 14's state test result (16.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robbinsdale Elementary - 14 this school | 328 | 100.0% | 16.3% |
| South Park Elementary - 16 Rapid City | 313 | 100.0% | 28.1% |
| Knollwood Heights Elementary - 08 Rapid City | 368 | 100.0% | 15.9% |
| Horace Mann Elementary - 07 Rapid City | 274 | 100.0% | 17.7% |
| General Beadle Elementary - 01 Rapid City | 483 | 100.0% | 12.4% |
| Wagner Elementary - 02 Wagner | 333 | 100.0% | 32.6% |
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 Robbinsdale Elementary - 14 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In South Dakota | In Pennington County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 16.3% | #187 of 193 | #16 of 18 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.2% | #191 of 199 no change | #17 of 19 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 16.6% | #195 of 202 ▼ 4 | #18 of 19 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 328 | #85 of 331 | #12 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.9:1 | #41 of 131 | #1 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.6% | #14 of 131 | #3 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #8 of 209 | #3 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -35.0% | #4 of 87 | #1 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
328
-54 (-14%) vs 2020
-53% since 1990-91, when it was 703
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
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 | 328 | 25.3 | 12.9:1 | 100% (328) |
| 2023-24 | 324 | 27.1 | 11.9:1 | 100% (324) |
| 2022-23 | 359 | 26.1 | 13.7:1 | 100% (359) |
| 2020-21 | 382 | 33 | 11.6:1 | 100% (382) |
| 2017-18 | 505 | 30.4 | 16.6:1 | 100% (505) |
| 2015-16 | 493 | 26 | 19.0:1 | 100% (493) |
| 2010-11 | 413 | 27 | 15.3:1 | 59% (244) |
| 2000-01 | 430 | 28 | 15.4:1 | 32% (137) |
| 1990-91 | 703 | 32 | 22.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Robbinsdale Elementary - 14.
Since 2017-18: students down 35% (505 to 328); teachers down 17% (30.4 to 25.3).
About Robbinsdale Elementary - 14
Robbinsdale Elementary - 14 is a high-enrollment elementary school in Rapid City, South Dakota, under Rapid City Area School District 51-4. Total enrollment is 328 students, and the grades served are pre-K through 5. That is 61% bigger than the average of about 204 students for elementary schools in South Dakota.
Robbinsdale Elementary - 14 is one of 26 schools in Rapid City Area School District 51-4, which enrolls 12,610 students in total.
The student body at Robbinsdale Elementary - 14 has no majority group. White students lead at 47%. Other groups make up 24% Native American, 16% multiracial, and 12% Hispanic. Pennington County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school's share is lower. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 69, compared with 70 nationally.
There are about 12.9 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Robbinsdale Elementary - 14, which has 25.3. Elementary schools in South Dakota have an average ratio of 15.4:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 100%. Public schools in Pennington County average 41%.
Robbinsdale Elementary - 14 holds a D allk12 Grade, placing it above 8% of South Dakota public elementary schools.
In South Dakota, Robbinsdale Elementary - 14 is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 16.3% actual against a predicted 22.1%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Pennington County show that the median household earns about $74,517 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 35%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Across Pennington County, 41 public schools serve about 16,186 students.
South Middle School - 36 is about 0.4 miles away, making it the nearest public school. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Robbinsdale Elementary - 14 ranks 5th of 5 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 16.3% against a local average of 36.0%.
NCES describes the area around Robbinsdale Elementary - 14 as City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
From 382 students in 2020-21, enrollment decreased to 328 by 2024-25. By 2024-25, the school had 12.9 students per teacher, compared with 11.6 in 2020-21.
On allk12, people connected to Robbinsdale Elementary - 14 can post about special education services, counseling, and support programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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
Nearby schools
- South Middle School - 360.4 mi · 618
- South Park Elementary - 160.7 mi · 313
- Grandview Elementary - 060.7 mi · 431
- Jefferson Building - 641.2 mi · 98
- Woodrow Wilson Elementary - 171.4 mi · 328
- Wellfully - 651.4 mi · 7
Frequently asked questions
About Robbinsdale Elementary - 14What is the total enrollment at Robbinsdale Elementary - 14?
Robbinsdale Elementary - 14 enrolls approximately 328 students in grades PK-05.
Is Robbinsdale Elementary - 14 an elementary, middle, or high school?
Robbinsdale Elementary - 14 is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Robbinsdale Elementary - 14 have?
Robbinsdale Elementary - 14 employs 25 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Robbinsdale Elementary - 14?
Student demographics at Robbinsdale Elementary - 14 are roughly 47% White, 12% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 16% Two or more.
Is Robbinsdale Elementary - 14 public or private?
Robbinsdale Elementary - 14 is a public K-12 school, overseen by Rapid City Area School District 51-4.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.