Public school / Primary
Inspiration Elementary - 08
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
- NCES ID
- 460795001416
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Inspiration Elementary - 08 is a public primary school in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, run by Brandon Valley School District 49-2. It enrols 295 students — the 66290th 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
295
Teachers
18.0
Students per teacher
16.4
Free or reduced-price lunch
16.9%
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 Brandon Valley School District 49-2
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.
- 1Brandon Valley High School - 011,345 students
- 2Brandon Valley Middle School - 02729 students
- 3Brandon Valley Intermediate - 07728 students
- 4Brandon Elementary - 03701 students
- 5Robert Bennis Elementary - 05556 students
- 6Fred Assam Elementary - 06486 students
- 7Inspiration Elementary - 08295 students
- 8Valley Springs Elementary - 0475 students
- Enrollment+105.6%
- Teachers+100.0%
- Students per teacher+23.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−36.7%
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