Rapid City Area School District 51-4 鈥� Pennington County, SD

Key statistics

12,308

Students enrolled

25

Public schools

770

Classroom teachers (FTE)

16.0:1

Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

Pre-K 167
Kindergarten 870
Grade 1 885
Grade 2 880
Grade 3 964
Grade 4 903
Grade 5 917
Grade 6 980
Grade 7 972
Grade 8 902
Grade 9 1,252
Grade 10 972
Grade 11 772
Grade 12 872

By race/ethnicity

White 58%
American Indian or Alaska Native 17%
Two or more races 12%
Hispanic/Latino 11%
Asian 1%
Black or African American 1%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

43% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 5,353 of 12,306 students in the 24 of its 25 schools that report

Free lunch 39%
Reduced-price lunch 4%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$11,037 spent per student on day-to-day operations South Dakota median: $13,757 per student

Spending per student

Instruction $5,904
Support services $4,658
Other (food service, etc.) $475

Where the money comes from

Local 56%
State 24%
Federal 20%

Total revenue $185.6 milliontotal spending $167.8 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

PK to 12

Locale (NCES)

City: SmallStudents: 94% city, 6% suburb

Total staff (FTE)

1,538

District office

625 9th St Ste 208, Rapid City SD 57701

Phone

(605) 394-4031

County

Pennington County

Official website

NCES District ID

4659820

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About Rapid City Area School District 51-4

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Mission: Building a community of lifelong learners one student at a time Vision: All Rapid City Area School students will achieve to their full potential.

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