Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66

Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66 is one of the well-populated elementary schools in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, operated by Sioux Falls School District 49-5, with 472 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 204 students per school, that is 131% bigger than typical.

Sioux Falls School District 49-5 comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 25,060 students; Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66 is among them.

Looking at the student body, Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66 shows that 49% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 19% Black, 12% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, 10% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Minnehaha County's rate of about 42%.

After controlling for student poverty, Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.9%, the actual is 36.0%, a residual of -1.8 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Minnehaha County shows the typical household earns roughly $76,880 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Minnehaha County runs 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,919 students), of which Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66 is one.

Patrick Henry Middle School - 07 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66. On composite proficiency, Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66 comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 50.7%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 12%: 536 students in 2018 compared to 472 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share decreased from 18% to 10%.

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