Elementary · South Dakota
Rapid Valley Elementary - 12
Rapid Valley Elementary - 12, a public elementary school in Rapid City, South Dakota: grades pre-k–5, 486 students, 15.5 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Rapid City Area School District 51-4.
Size and class size
Compared with elementary schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 486
- Teachers (FTE)
- 31.3
- Students per teacher
- 15.5
- Grades
- Pre-K–5
- Elementary
More students per teacher than 81% of elementary schools in South Dakota
Median 12.8 · 318 schools compared
More students per teacher than 60% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Larger than 91% of elementary schools in South Dakota
Median 150 · 319 schools compared
Larger than 64% of elementary schools in the US
Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Elementary · Grades Pre-K–5
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Area
- Small suburb
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Rapid City Area School District 51-4.
Location
- Address
- 2601 Covington St, Rapid City, SD 57703
- Phone
- (605)393-2221
- City or town
- Rapid Valley
- County
- Pennington County
Nearby elementary schools
The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| K–5 | 605 | 17.8 | |
Robbinsdale Elementary - 14Free meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 328 | 13.0 |
| K–5 | 431 | 16.4 | |
South Park Elementary - 16Free meals for all | K–5 | 313 | 13.9 |
General Beadle Elementary - 01Free meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 483 | 18.5 |
Knollwood Heights Elementary - 08Free meals for all | K–5 | 368 | 13.0 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
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