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Enrollment
690
Elementary
DISTRICT 466 · STATE 204
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SIOUX FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT 49-5·NCES 466627001344
Sonia Sotomayor Elementary - 65
1510 S Lake Ave, Sioux Falls, SD 57105 · (605) 367-4655 · Minnehaha County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL690 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 89% of South Dakota public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
18.1:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 15.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
14%
97 students
DISTRICT 58% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 25 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 133 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 138 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 103 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 102 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 96 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 93 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (133) is 43% larger than its 5th grade class (93).
Student demographics
41%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
68.8%
SD avg 50.3% . -3.9pp since 2022
Math
73.6%
SD avg 47.5% . +5.4pp since 2022
What this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 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 are up about 5 points.
SD Smarter Balanced results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 68.8% | 73.6% |
| 2023-24 | 66.2% | 64.6% |
| 2022-23 | 72.7% | 68.2% |
% 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
66.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.3%
based on SD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 Sonia Sotomayor Elementary - 65
Sonia Sotomayor Elementary - 65's state test result (66.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sonia Sotomayor Elementary - 65 this school | 690 | 14.1% | 66.8% |
| Camelot Intermediate - 06 Brookings | 523 | 21.4% | 44.2% |
| Meadowbrook Elementary - 10 Rapid City | 478 | 24.7% | 51.7% |
| Liberty Elementary - 02 Harrisburg | 559 | 16.1% | 40.7% |
| Madison Elementary - 07 Madison | 515 | 28.5% | 53.7% |
| Tea Area Legacy Elementary - 01 Tea | 538 | 14.5% | 64.4% |
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 Sonia Sotomayor Elementary - 65 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In South Dakota | In Minnehaha County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.8% | #19 of 193 | #8 of 35 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.6% | #22 of 199 ▲ 20 | #5 of 35 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.8% | #17 of 202 ▲ 7 | #6 of 35 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 690 | #6 of 331 | #5 of 39 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.1:1 | #127 of 131 | #30 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.1% | #68 of 131 | #21 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 14.1% | #196 of 209 | #31 of 36 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +7.0% | #22 of 36 | #6 of 13 |
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
690
-18 (-3%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
18.1:1
was 20.2:1
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 | 690 | 38.1 | 18.1:1 | 14% (97) |
| 2023-24 | 678 | 36.6 | 18.5:1 | 14% (92) |
| 2022-23 | 676 | 35.6 | 19.0:1 | 11% (75) |
| 2020-21 | 708 | 35 | 20.2:1 | 14% (96) |
| 2017-18 | 645 | 34.3 | 18.8:1 | 9% (58) |
| 2015-16 | 470 | 24 | 19.6:1 | 9% (42) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sonia Sotomayor Elementary - 65.
Since 2017-18: students up 7% (645 to 690); teachers up 11% (34.3 to 38.1).
About Sonia Sotomayor Elementary - 65
Sonia Sotomayor Elementary - 65 is a public elementary school run by Sioux Falls School District 49-5 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. A total of 690 students attend the school, which covers pre-K through 5. The average for elementary schools in South Dakota is about 204 students, so this school is 238% bigger than average.
Sonia Sotomayor Elementary - 65 falls under Sioux Falls School District 49-5, which has 44 schools enrolling 25,060 students.
At Sonia Sotomayor Elementary - 65, White students make up 74% of the student body. The school is also 18% Hispanic and 6% multiracial. The school's diversity index is 41%, meaning two students picked at random have a 41% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Its 38.1 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 18.1:1. The school has more students per teacher than the 15.4:1 average for elementary schools in South Dakota. The school's lunch program data list 14% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Public schools in Minnehaha County average 42%.
The allk12 Grade for Sonia Sotomayor Elementary - 65 is A. Compared with South Dakota public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 89% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Sonia Sotomayor Elementary - 65 is +9.6 points: 66.8% actual, 57.3% predicted.
In the county around the school, Minnehaha County, the median household income is $76,880, roughly 35% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 83 public schools in Minnehaha County, enrolling about 34,919 students in all.
Edison Middle School - 06 is the public school closest to Sonia Sotomayor Elementary - 65, about 0.4 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Sonia Sotomayor Elementary - 65's average proficiency of 66.8% compares with 32.5% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Sonia Sotomayor Elementary - 65 is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000, a location NCES labels City: Mid-size.
Over 4 years, Sonia Sotomayor Elementary - 65's enrollment declined 3%, to 690. The number of students per teacher fell from 20.2 to 18.1 over 4 years.
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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
- Memorial Middle School - 04Middle · 1,133 students
- Edison Middle School - 06Middle · 937 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
- Memorial Middle School - 04Middle · 1,133 students
- Edison Middle School - 06Middle · 937 students
Other Sonia Sotomayor Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Sonia Sotomayor Elementary. Sonia Sotomayor Elementary - 65 is the largest of the 2.
- Sonia Sotomayor ElementaryChula Vista, CA · 488 students
Nearby schools
- Edison Middle School - 060.4 mi · 937
- Lowell Elementary - 280.6 mi · 426
- Laura Wilder Elementary - 310.7 mi · 447
- Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 660.8 mi · 472
- Garfield Elementary - 190.8 mi · 574
- Axtell Park Middle School - 471.2 mi · 31
Frequently asked questions
About Sonia Sotomayor Elementary - 65How many students attend Sonia Sotomayor Elementary - 65?
Sonia Sotomayor Elementary - 65 enrolls approximately 690 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Sonia Sotomayor Elementary - 65 serve?
Sonia Sotomayor Elementary - 65 serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Sonia Sotomayor Elementary - 65?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Sonia Sotomayor Elementary - 65 is approximately 18.1:1 (38 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Sonia Sotomayor Elementary - 65?
At Sonia Sotomayor Elementary - 65, the student body is approximately 74% White, 18% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Sonia Sotomayor Elementary - 65 in?
Sonia Sotomayor Elementary - 65 is part of Sioux Falls School District 49-5.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.