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Enrollment
605
Elementary
DISTRICT 386 · STATE 204
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RAPID CITY AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT 51-4·NCES 465982000969
Valley View Elementary - 13
4840 Homestead St, Rapid City, SD 57703 · (605) 393-2812 · Pennington County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL605 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 9% of South Dakota public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
17.8:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.6:1 · STATE 15.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
41%
249 students
DISTRICT 48% · 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 | 115 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 96 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 92 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 93 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 105 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 104 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (115) is 11% larger than its 5th grade class (104).
Student demographics
55%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
26.6%
SD avg 50.3% . -5.5pp since 2022
Math
27.9%
SD avg 47.5% . -9.9pp since 2022
What this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 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 6 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 10 points.
SD Smarter Balanced results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 26.6% | 27.9% |
| 2023-24 | 31.7% | 38.1% |
| 2022-23 | 32.1% | 37.8% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of SD schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
30.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.2%
based on SD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 46% typical for South Dakota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Valley View Elementary - 13
Valley View Elementary - 13's state test result (30.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valley View Elementary - 13 this school | 605 | 41.2% | 30.8% |
| Vandenberg Elementary - 02 Box Elder | 454 | 40.5% | 46.4% |
| Rapid Valley Elementary - 12 Rapid City | 486 | 42.2% | 41.5% |
| Vermillion Elementary - 05 Vermillion | 625 | 35.8% | N/A |
| Grandview Elementary - 06 Rapid City | 431 | 39.2% | 44.7% |
| Kennedy Elementary - 08 Pierre | 413 | 41.4% | 54.3% |
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 Valley View Elementary - 13 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In South Dakota | In Pennington County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.8% | #166 of 193 | #13 of 18 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.9% | #178 of 199 ▼ 21 | #14 of 19 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.6% | #181 of 202 ▼ 10 | #15 of 19 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 605 | #14 of 331 | #2 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.8:1 | #125 of 131 | #15 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.9% | #38 of 131 | #10 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 41.2% | #78 of 209 | #8 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.3% | #84 of 87 | #13 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
605
+50 (+9%) vs 2020
-11% since 1990-91, when it was 677
Student : Teacher
17.8:1
was 16.3:1
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 | 605 | 34.1 | 17.8:1 | 41% (249) |
| 2023-24 | 584 | 31 | 18.8:1 | 30% (177) |
| 2022-23 | 581 | 32.5 | 17.9:1 | 34% (195) |
| 2020-21 | 555 | 34 | 16.3:1 | 37% (206) |
| 2017-18 | 619 | 32.8 | 18.9:1 | 42% (262) |
| 2015-16 | 652 | 32 | 20.4:1 | 54% (353) |
| 2010-11 | 557 | 36 | 15.5:1 | 46% (258) |
| 2000-01 | 263 | 17 | 15.5:1 | 36% (94) |
| 1990-91 | 677 | 11 | 61.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Valley View Elementary - 13.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (619 to 605); teachers up 4% (32.8 to 34.1).
About Valley View Elementary - 13
Valley View Elementary - 13 runs as a large elementary school in Rapid City, South Dakota. It serves 605 students in kindergarten through 5. For comparison, elementary schools in South Dakota average about 204 students.
Valley View Elementary - 13 is run by Rapid City Area School District 51-4, whose 26 schools enroll 12,610 students.
By race and ethnicity, Valley View Elementary - 13 is 64% White. Beyond that, enrollment is 15% multiracial, 11% Native American, and 8% Hispanic. In Pennington County overall, about 79% of residents are White. The chance that two students picked at random at Valley View Elementary - 13 belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 55%.
The count of teachers at Valley View Elementary - 13 is 34.1 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 17.8:1. Among elementary schools in South Dakota, the typical ratio is 15.4:1. The school counts 249 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 41%. That is close to the 41% average for public schools in Pennington County.
allk12 grades Valley View Elementary - 13 a D. The grade compares the school only with South Dakota public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
In South Dakota, Valley View Elementary - 13 is one of the bottom 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate on state tests of 30.8% compared with a predicted 46.2%.
County data help place the school in context: in Pennington County, median household income is about $74,517, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 35% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 7%. The public schools of Pennington County number 41 and enroll about 16,186.
The school nearest to Valley View Elementary - 13 is East Middle School - 30, at a distance of less than a tenth of a mile. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 7 closest schools with test data, this one included, Valley View Elementary - 13 ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
Valley View Elementary - 13 has an NCES locale of City: Small.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Valley View Elementary - 13 went from 555 students to 605. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 16.3:1 in 2020-21 to 17.8:1 in 2024-25.
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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
- West Middle School - 37Middle · 591 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
- West Middle School - 37Middle · 591 students
Other Valley View Elementary schools
35 other US public schools in 17 states are named Valley View Elementary. Valley View Elementary - 13 is the 7th largest of the 36.
- Valley View Elementary SchoolGermantown, OH · 814 students
- Valley View ElementaryRiverside, CA · 675 students
- VALLEY VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLJONESBORO, AR · 668 students
- Valley View ElementaryGreen Bay, WI · 660 students
- Valley View ElementaryLancaster, CA · 659 students
Nearby schools
- East Middle School - 300.0 mi · 613
- Rapid Valley Elementary - 121.2 mi · 486
- Wellfully - 653.3 mi · 7
- Robbinsdale Elementary - 143.6 mi · 328
- Knollwood Heights Elementary - 083.7 mi · 368
- General Beadle Elementary - 013.8 mi · 483
Frequently asked questions
About Valley View Elementary - 13How many students attend Valley View Elementary - 13?
Valley View Elementary - 13 enrolls approximately 605 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Valley View Elementary - 13 serve?
Valley View Elementary - 13 serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does Valley View Elementary - 13 have?
Valley View Elementary - 13 employs 34 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.8:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Valley View Elementary - 13?
At Valley View Elementary - 13, the student body is approximately 64% White, 8% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 15% Two or more.
What district is Valley View Elementary - 13 in?
Valley View Elementary - 13 is part of Rapid City Area School District 51-4.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.