Public school / Middle
Ben Reifel Middle School - 68
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
- NCES ID
- 466627001425
- District
- Sioux Falls School District 49-5
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Ben Reifel Middle School - 68 is a public middle school in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, run by Sioux Falls School District 49-5. It enrols 1,010 students — the 8455th largest of 763 public schools in South Dakota.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
1,010
Teachers
68.0
Students per teacher
14.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
35.9%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Sioux Falls School District 49-5
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Washington High School - 011,910 students
- 2Lincoln High School - 021,883 students
- 3Jefferson High School - 671,749 students
- 4Roosevelt High School - 031,713 students
- 5Memorial Middle School - 041,168 students
- 6Ben Reifel Middle School - 681,010 students
- 7Rf Pettigrew Elementary - 17952 students
- 8Patrick Henry Middle School - 07940 students
- Enrollment+603.8%
- Teachers+655.6%
- Students per teacher+12.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+34.5%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory