Public school / Primary
Simmons Elementary - 10
Aberdeen, South Dakota
- NCES ID
- 460207000010
- District
- Aberdeen School District 06-1
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Simmons Elementary - 10 is a public primary school in Aberdeen, South Dakota, run by Aberdeen School District 06-1. It enrols 395 students — the 51647th 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
395
Teachers
28.0
Students per teacher
14.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
39.2%
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 Aberdeen School District 06-1
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.
- 1Central High School - 011,388 students
- 2Holgate Middle School - 02512 students
- 3Simmons Middle School - 03483 students
- 4Simmons Elementary - 10395 students
- 5C C Lee Elementary - 05371 students
- 6May Overby Elementary - 09357 students
- 7O M Tiffany Elementary - 11312 students
- 8Lincoln Elementary - 08256 students
- Enrollment+175.3%
- Teachers+211.1%
- Students per teacher+6.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+46.8%
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