Washington High School - 01

Washington High School - 01, located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is a large high school. The school offers grades 9 through 12 and enrolls 1,819 students. That puts enrollment 708% above the 225-student average for high schools in South Dakota.

Sioux Falls School District 49-5 enrolls 25,060 students in 44 schools, including Washington High School - 01.

The largest group at Washington High School - 01 is White students, at 47%. The remaining students are 21% Black, 16% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 5% Asian. Census figures show Minnehaha County is about 80% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Washington High School - 01 scores 70%.

Washington High School - 01 has 120.1 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.2:1. The gap from the 20.6:1 average for high schools in South Dakota is 5.5 students per teacher. At Washington High School - 01, 53% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The gap from the 42% average for public schools in Minnehaha County is 11 points.

In the wider Minnehaha County area, 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%. Minnehaha County counts 83 public schools with about 34,919 students.

Among nearby public schools, Anne Sullivan Elementary - 20 is closest at about 0.4 miles. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8.

The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Mid-size: inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 1,819, from 1,975 in 2020-21. The ratio was 16.3:1 in 2020-21 and 15.2:1 in 2024-25.

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