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Enrollment
675
Middle
DISTRICT 767 · STATE 187
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SIOUX FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT 49-5·NCES 466627000611
Whittier Middle School - 08
930 E 6th St, Sioux Falls, SD 57103 · (605) 367-7620 · Minnehaha County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL675 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 22% of South Dakota public middle schools
- DTest 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
54 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 13.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
561 students
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 42%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 230 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 213 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 232 | 34% |
Student demographics
78%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
28.9%
SD avg 50.3% . +6.4pp since 2022
Math
20.6%
SD avg 47.5% . +5.4pp since 2022
What this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all South Dakota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 47. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 5 points.
SD Smarter Balanced results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 28.9% | 20.6% |
| 2023-24 | 30.9% | 18.2% |
| 2022-23 | 22.5% | 15.2% |
% 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
25.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.0%
based on SD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 29% 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 Whittier Middle School - 08
Whittier Middle School - 08's state test result (25.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whittier Middle School - 08 this school | 675 | 83.1% | 25.5% |
| George McGovern Middle School -09 Sioux Falls | 780 | 75.5% | 31.7% |
| Ben Reifel Middle School - 68 Sioux Falls | 885 | 44.5% | 49.8% |
| Edison Middle School - 06 Sioux Falls | 937 | 48.2% | 45.9% |
| Simmons Middle School - 03 Aberdeen | 464 | 48.5% | 41.4% |
| Patrick Henry Middle School - 07 Sioux Falls | 925 | 35.6% | 57.9% |
Matched among South Dakota middle 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 Whittier Middle School - 08 ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In South Dakota | In Minnehaha County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.5% | #62 of 64 | #13 of 13 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.6% | #61 of 64 ▲ 1 | #13 of 13 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.9% | #62 of 65 no change | #13 of 13 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 675 | #10 of 165 | #8 of 14 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.5:1 | #8 of 42 | #1 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 77.9% | #1 of 42 | #1 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.1% | #5 of 65 | #1 of 13 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.1% | #2 of 26 | #1 of 6 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
675
-263 (-28%) vs 2020
-15% since 1990-91, when it was 798
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
was 13.0:1
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 | 675 | 53.9 | 12.5:1 | 83% (561) |
| 2023-24 | 716 | 55.4 | 12.9:1 | 72% (513) |
| 2022-23 | 704 | 62.7 | 11.2:1 | 70% (490) |
| 2020-21 | 938 | 72 | 13.0:1 | 75% (705) |
| 2017-18 | 913 | 62.7 | 14.6:1 | 61% (560) |
| 2015-16 | 846 | 61 | 13.9:1 | 67% (566) |
| 2010-11 | 923 | 59 | 15.6:1 | 56% (517) |
| 2000-01 | 899 | 57 | 15.8:1 | 39% (348) |
| 1990-91 | 798 | 50 | 16.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Whittier Middle School - 08.
Since 2017-18: students down 26% (913 to 675); teachers down 14% (62.7 to 53.9).
About Whittier Middle School - 08
Whittier Middle School - 08 is a high-enrollment middle-grades school with an address in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 675 students in grades 6 through 8. The average for middle schools in South Dakota is about 187 students, so this school is 261% bigger than average.
Sioux Falls School District 49-5, which runs Whittier Middle School - 08, has 44 schools and 25,060 students.
Enrollment at Whittier Middle School - 08 is mixed, with Hispanic students the largest group at 29%. After that, the student body is 28% Black, 20% White, 8% Asian, and 8% Native American. Census figures show Minnehaha County is about 7% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at Whittier Middle School - 08 belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 78%.
Federal staffing data show 53.9 full-time-equivalent teachers at Whittier Middle School - 08 and a ratio of 12.5:1. That ratio is under the 13.4:1 average for middle schools in South Dakota. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 83% of students. The rate at public schools in Minnehaha County averages 42%, lower than here.
allk12 grades Whittier Middle School - 08 a C-. The grade compares the school only with South Dakota public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
Compared with South Dakota schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Whittier Middle School - 08's results are 3.5 points below predicted: 25.5% against 29.0%.
County data help place the school in context: in Minnehaha County, median household income is about $76,880, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 35% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 6%. The public schools of Minnehaha County number 83 and enroll about 34,919.
The nearest public school is Terry Redlin Elementary - 11, at about 0.5 miles. Whittier Middle School - 08 has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. The school's 25.5% average proficiency ranks 3rd among 7 nearby schools.
Federal data place Whittier Middle School - 08 in the City: Mid-size locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment down 28%, from 938 to 675.
Conversations here can range across science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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 Whittier Middle schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Whittier Middle. Whittier Middle School - 08 is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Whittier Middle SchoolNorman, OK · 1,108 students
- Whittier Middle SchoolSAN ANTONIO, TX · 656 students
Nearby schools
- Terry Redlin Elementary - 110.5 mi · 412
- Eugene Field A+ Elementary - 160.8 mi · 444
- Laura B. Anderson Elementary - 100.9 mi · 291
- Hawthorne Elementary - 561.0 mi · 443
- Lowell Elementary - 281.5 mi · 426
- Bridges At Horace Mann - 521.6 mi · 55
Frequently asked questions
About Whittier Middle School - 08What is the total enrollment at Whittier Middle School - 08?
Whittier Middle School - 08 enrolls approximately 675 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Whittier Middle School - 08 serve?
Whittier Middle School - 08 serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does Whittier Middle School - 08 have?
Whittier Middle School - 08 employs 54 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.5:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Whittier Middle School - 08?
At Whittier Middle School - 08, the student body is approximately 20% White, 29% Hispanic, 28% Black, 8% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Whittier Middle School - 08 public or private?
Whittier Middle School - 08 is a public K-12 school, overseen by Sioux Falls School District 49-5.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.