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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66 this year?
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Enrollment
472
Elementary
DISTRICT 466 · STATE 204
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SIOUX FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT 49-5·NCES 466627001351
Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66
2000 S Dakota Ave, Sioux Falls, SD 57105 · (605) 367-4560 · Minnehaha County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL472 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 31% of South Dakota public elementary schools
- CTest 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
15.0:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 15.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
290 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 66 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 87 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 86 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 79 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (66) is 16% smaller than its 5th grade class (79).
Student demographics
69%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
31.7%
SD avg 50.3% . -11.1pp since 2022
Math
37.4%
SD avg 47.5% . -4.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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 | 31.7% | 37.4% |
| 2023-24 | 38.7% | 38.9% |
| 2022-23 | 42.8% | 41.4% |
% 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
36.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.9%
based on SD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 38% 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 Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66
Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66's state test result (36.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66 this school | 472 | 61.4% | 36.0% |
| Laura Wilder Elementary - 31 Sioux Falls | 447 | 66.7% | 30.4% |
| Harvey Dunn Elementary - 54 Sioux Falls | 681 | 46.5% | 60.0% |
| Renberg Elementary - 42 Renner | 155 | 56.1% | 38.0% |
| Oscar Howe Elementary - 58 Sioux Falls | 608 | 52.0% | 43.8% |
| Eugene Field A+ Elementary - 16 Sioux Falls | 444 | 46.6% | 49.7% |
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 Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In South Dakota | In Minnehaha County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #153 of 193 | #25 of 35 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.4% | #159 of 199 ▼ 8 | #26 of 35 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.7% | #168 of 202 ▼ 20 | #28 of 35 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 472 | #33 of 331 | #15 of 39 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.0:1 | #89 of 131 | #17 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.0% | #13 of 131 | #9 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 61.4% | #38 of 209 | #11 of 36 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.9% | #42 of 87 | #9 of 16 |
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
472
+1 (+0%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
was 15.2:1
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 | 472 | 31.4 | 15.0:1 | 61% (290) |
| 2023-24 | 491 | 33.1 | 14.8:1 | 47% (231) |
| 2022-23 | 555 | 33.8 | 16.4:1 | 43% (240) |
| 2020-21 | 471 | 31 | 15.2:1 | 48% (225) |
| 2017-18 | 536 | 37 | 14.5:1 | 46% (245) |
| 2015-16 | 550 | 35 | 15.7:1 | 54% (299) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (536 to 472); teachers down 15% (37 to 31.4).
About Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66
Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66 is a high-enrollment elementary school located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Enrollment totals 472 students across kindergarten through 5. That puts enrollment 131% larger than the 204-student average for elementary schools in South Dakota.
Sioux Falls School District 49-5 has 25,060 students in 44 schools, and Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66 is one of those schools.
The biggest share of students at Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66, 49%, is White. The rest of enrollment is 19% Black, 12% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, and 10% Native American. Census estimates put the White share of Minnehaha County's population at about 80%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66 scores 69%.
With 31.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 15.0:1. That is in line with the 15.4:1 average for elementary schools in South Dakota. Roughly 61% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Minnehaha County averages 42%, lower than here.
Among South Dakota public elementary schools, Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66 outscored 31%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 37.9% for Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66. The school posts 36.0%, 1.8 points below the prediction.
Minnehaha County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $76,880 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 35% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Public schools in Minnehaha County number 83, with about 34,919 students.
Patrick Henry Middle School - 07 is about 0.6 miles from Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66, the shortest distance to any other public school. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The school's 36.0% average proficiency ranks 6th among 8 nearby schools.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Mid-size, or inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 471 to 472.
People can post here about open houses, carpools, and field trips and other school topics. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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 Susan B. Anthony Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 3 states are named Susan B. Anthony Elementary. Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66 is the 2nd largest of the 7.
- Susan B. Anthony ElementaryCorona, CA · 822 students
- Susan B. Anthony ElementaryDaly City, CA · 407 students
- Susan B. Anthony ElementaryFresno, CA · 368 students
- Susan B. Anthony ElementaryWestminster, CA · 332 students
- Susan B. Anthony ElementarySacramento, CA · 329 students
Nearby schools
- Patrick Henry Middle School - 070.6 mi · 925
- Lowell Elementary - 280.8 mi · 426
- Sonia Sotomayor Elementary - 650.8 mi · 690
- Robert Frost Elementary - 180.8 mi · 447
- Challenge Center - 510.8 mi · 165
- Edison Middle School - 060.9 mi · 937
Frequently asked questions
About Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66What is the total enrollment at Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66?
Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66 enrolls approximately 472 students in grades KG-05.
Is Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66 an elementary, middle, or high school?
Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66 is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66 is approximately 15.0:1 (31 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66?
At Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66, the student body is approximately 49% White, 10% Hispanic, 19% Black, 0% Asian, 12% Two or more.
What district is Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66 in?
Susan B. Anthony Elementary - 66 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.