Enrollment
328
Elementary
DISTRICT 386 · STATE 204
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RAPID CITY AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT 51-4·NCES 465982000530
Woodrow Wilson Elementary - 17
827 Franklin St, Rapid City, SD 57701 · (605) 394-1837 · Pennington County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL328 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 32% 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.
- CBeats 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
15.8:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.6:1 · STATE 15.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
42%
137 students
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 42%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 19 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 54 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 46 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 50 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 52 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 55 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 52 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (54) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (52).
Student demographics
66%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
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SD Smarter Balanced 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
41.6%
SD avg 50.3% . +0.8pp since 2022
Math
41.3%
SD avg 47.5% . +2.2pp since 2022
What this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all South Dakota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 47. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2022, while math scores are up about 2 points.
SD Smarter Balanced results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.6% | 41.3% |
| 2023-24 | 41.8% | 38.3% |
| 2022-23 | 40.8% | 39.1% |
% 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
41.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.9%
based on SD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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 Woodrow Wilson Elementary - 17
Woodrow Wilson Elementary - 17's state test result (41.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodrow Wilson Elementary - 17 this school | 328 | 41.8% | 41.0% |
| Grandview Elementary - 06 Rapid City | 431 | 39.2% | 44.7% |
| Vandenberg Elementary - 02 Box Elder | 454 | 40.5% | 46.4% |
| Simmons Elementary - 10 Aberdeen | 386 | 48.2% | 38.1% |
| Rapid Valley Elementary - 12 Rapid City | 486 | 42.2% | 41.5% |
| Longfellow Elementary - 05 Mitchell | 290 | 45.5% | 52.0% |
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 Woodrow Wilson Elementary - 17 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In South Dakota | In Pennington County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #135 of 193 | #11 of 18 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.3% | #138 of 199 ▲ 17 | #8 of 19 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.6% | #145 of 202 ▼ 7 | #11 of 19 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 328 | #84 of 331 | #11 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.8:1 | #102 of 131 | #11 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.0% | #20 of 131 | #5 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 41.8% | #73 of 209 | #7 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.1% | #61 of 87 | #8 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
328
-5 (-2%) vs 2020
-16% since 1990-91, when it was 390
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
was 15.9:1
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 | 328 | 20.7 | 15.8:1 | 42% (137) |
| 2023-24 | 287 | 17.6 | 16.3:1 | 31% (88) |
| 2022-23 | 337 | 20.5 | 16.4:1 | 41% (139) |
| 2020-21 | 333 | 21 | 15.9:1 | 43% (142) |
| 2017-18 | 353 | 20.5 | 17.2:1 | 39% (138) |
| 2015-16 | 368 | 22 | 16.7:1 | 46% (169) |
| 2010-11 | 362 | 22 | 16.4:1 | 35% (126) |
| 2000-01 | 270 | 13 | 20.8:1 | 23% (63) |
| 1990-91 | 390 | 21 | 18.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Woodrow Wilson Elementary - 17.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (353 to 328); teachers up 1% (20.5 to 20.7).
About Woodrow Wilson Elementary - 17
Woodrow Wilson Elementary - 17 is a large elementary school based in Rapid City, South Dakota. It has an enrollment of 328 students in kindergarten through 5. Elementary schools in South Dakota average about 204 students, which makes this school 61% bigger than average.
Rapid City Area School District 51-4 has 26 schools; together they serve 12,610 students.
The student body at Woodrow Wilson Elementary - 17 is 52% White. The school is also 19% Native American, 13% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, and 4% Black. The White share of the county population is higher, at 79%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 66, compared with 70 nationally.
The student-to-teacher ratio at Woodrow Wilson Elementary - 17 is 15.8:1, based on 20.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in South Dakota is about 15.4:1. Woodrow Wilson Elementary - 17 counts 42% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is in line with the 41% average for public schools in Pennington County.
Woodrow Wilson Elementary - 17 earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 32% of South Dakota public elementary schools.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 41.0%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 45.9%.
American Community Survey estimates for Pennington County show that the median household earns about $74,517 a year, about 35% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Pennington County has 41 public schools with about 16,186 students, including Woodrow Wilson Elementary - 17.
Rapid City Online High School - 92 is about 0.7 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Woodrow Wilson Elementary - 17 is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Woodrow Wilson Elementary - 17 at 2nd of 5.
The NCES locale for Woodrow Wilson Elementary - 17 is City: Small, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Woodrow Wilson Elementary - 17 had 333 students in 2020-21 and 328 in 2024-25, nearly the same.
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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
- Valley View Elementary - 13Elementary · 605 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
- Valley View Elementary - 13Elementary · 605 students
Other Woodrow Wilson Elementary schools
17 other US public schools in 11 states are named Woodrow Wilson Elementary. Woodrow Wilson Elementary - 17 is the 9th largest of the 18.
- Woodrow Wilson ElementaryCorona, CA · 696 students
- Woodrow Wilson Elementary SchoolCicero, IL · 622 students
- Woodrow Wilson Elementary SchoolBartlesville, OK · 529 students
- Woodrow Wilson ElementaryColton, CA · 465 students
- Woodrow Wilson Elementary SchoolSAYREVILLE, NJ · 401 students
Nearby schools
- Rapid City Online High School - 920.7 mi · 73
- South Park Elementary - 160.7 mi · 313
- Lincoln Building - 440.7 mi · 23
- South Middle School - 361.0 mi · 618
- Jefferson Building - 641.0 mi · 98
- Central High School - 411.3 mi · 1,998
Frequently asked questions
About Woodrow Wilson Elementary - 17What is the total enrollment at Woodrow Wilson Elementary - 17?
Woodrow Wilson Elementary - 17 enrolls approximately 328 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Woodrow Wilson Elementary - 17 serve?
Woodrow Wilson Elementary - 17 serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Woodrow Wilson Elementary - 17?
Approximately 15.8:1 students per teacher at Woodrow Wilson Elementary - 17.
How diverse is Woodrow Wilson Elementary - 17?
Woodrow Wilson Elementary - 17 reports a student body of 52% White, 13% Hispanic, 4% Black, 2% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Who oversees Woodrow Wilson Elementary - 17?
Woodrow Wilson Elementary - 17 is overseen by Rapid City Area School District 51-4 in Pennington County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.