Schools · Sioux Falls
Sioux Falls, SD schools
Kids attend one of 23 elementary schools through grade 5, then one of 24 elementary schools, one of 6 middle schools and one of 4 high schools.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
C+
Sioux Falls’s School Grade: C+
The public schools Sioux Falls’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 59% of South Dakota’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
C+Test scoresB-Graduation
South Dakota school districts we grade (146)Better than 41%
Lower resultsHigher results
South Dakota towns with similar household incomes (340)Better than 44%
High confidence. Built on 12,232 tested students and a graduating class of 1,677; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on South Dakota’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of South Dakota only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in South Dakota with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
School path
Where Sioux Falls kids go to school
Grades PK–5
23 elementary schoolsDepends on your address · see the list Sioux Falls School District 49-5Grades 5
24 elementary schoolsDepends on your address · see the list Sioux Falls School District 49-5Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Test scores · 2020–21
State test results
Math (grades PK–12, Sioux Falls School District 49-5)39%
State average 42.2%
Graduation · class of 2020
85% graduate on time
Graduation rate
85%
SD: 84.5%
Graduating class
1,677
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #21 of 33 SD towns →
Districts
The district serving Sioux Falls
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 78 schools in Sioux Falls
Showing 1–30 of 78 schools
Discovery Elementary - 26Elementary · Grades PK–5 · 873 students
BPublicRF Pettigrew Elementary - 17Elementary · Grades PK–5 · 846 students
B+PublicHayward Elementary - 38Elementary · Grades PK–5 · 728 students
DPublicSonia Sotomayor Elementary - 65Elementary · Grades PK–5 · 690 students
APublicHarvey Dunn Elementary - 54Elementary · Grades PK–5 · 681 students
B+PublicJohn Harris Elementary - 23Elementary · Grades PK–5 · 666 students
APublicJohn F. Kennedy Elementary - 57Elementary · Grades K–5 · 661 students
B+PublicAnne Sullivan Elementary - 20Elementary · Grades PK–5 · 632 students
DPublicRosa Parks Elementary - 15Elementary · Grades K–5 · 618 students
C-PublicOscar Howe Elementary - 58Elementary · Grades K–5 · 608 students
B-PublicGarfield Elementary - 19Elementary · Grades PK–5 · 574 students
DPublicFred Assam Elementary - 06Elementary · Grades K–4 · 531 students
A+PublicSusan B. Anthony Elementary - 66Elementary · Grades K–5 · 472 students
CPublicCleveland Elementary - 14Elementary · Grades PK–5 · 465 students
DPublicHorizon Elementary - 09Elementary · Grades PK–5 · 458 students
B-PublicLaura Wilder Elementary - 31Elementary · Grades K–5 · 447 students
C-PublicRobert Frost Elementary - 18Elementary · Grades PK–5 · 447 students
CPublicEugene Field A+ Elementary - 16Elementary · Grades K–5 · 444 students
CPublicHawthorne Elementary - 56Elementary · Grades PK–5 · 443 students
DPublicLowell Elementary - 28Elementary · Grades PK–5 · 426 students
C-PublicTerry Redlin Elementary - 11Elementary · Grades K–5 · 412 students
DPublicEndeavor Elementary - 07Elementary · Grades PK–5 · 358 students
A+PublicInspiration Elementary - 08Elementary · Grades K–4 · 345 students
PublicJourney Elementary - 05Elementary · Grades K–5 · 340 students
B+PublicExplorer Elementary - 04Elementary · Grades K–5 · 338 students
B+PublicTea Area Frontier Elementary - 05Elementary · Grades K–5 · 292 students
B+PublicLaura B. Anderson Elementary - 10Elementary · Grades PK–5 · 291 students
C-PublicChallenge Center - 51Elementary · Grades 2–5 · 165 students
A+PublicAll City Elementary - 50Elementary · Grades K–5 · 149 students
A+PublicElementary Immersion Center - 43Elementary · Grades K–5 · 106 students
D-PublicSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.