Terry Redlin Elementary - 11

Located at 1721 E Austin St, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Terry Redlin Elementary - 11 is a heavily attended elementary-level community that serves 412 students (grades K through 5), run under Sioux Falls School District 49-5. Compared to the state average of about 204 students per school, that is 102% above typical.

Sioux Falls School District 49-5 runs 44 schools in total, collectively educating 25,060 students. Terry Redlin Elementary - 11 is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Terry Redlin Elementary - 11 reports that the most-represented group is White (26%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 22% Black, 21% Hispanic, 16% Native American, 10% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

On the resource side, On paper, Terry Redlin Elementary - 11 has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.9:1. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 85% of students at Terry Redlin Elementary - 11 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Minnehaha County's rate of about 42%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Terry Redlin Elementary - 11 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.1%, the actual is 20.5%, a residual of -7.6 points.

Around the school, census data for Minnehaha County shows median household income runs about $76,880, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Minnehaha County runs 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,919 students), of which Terry Redlin Elementary - 11 is one.

Eugene Field A+ Elementary - 16 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Terry Redlin Elementary - 11 comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 25.3%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Terry Redlin Elementary - 11 has fell 20%, going from 517 students in 2018 to 412 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 26% to 21% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

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