Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 3
Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07, Brookings, SD
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 509
- Teachers (FTE)
- 34.0
- Students per teacher
- 15.0
- Grades
- PK to 3
This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 15.4. The South Dakota average across schools is 14.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 111 26th St S, Brookings, SD 57006
- Phone
- (605)696-4900
- District
- Brookings School District 05-1
- County
- Brookings County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Rural: Fringe
- NCES school ID
- 460852001356
School meals
- Free lunch
- 40
- Reduced-price lunch
- 23
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 6312.4% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 19Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- No
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other elementary schools in Brookings School District 05-1
- Camelot Intermediate - 06 523 students
- Medary Elementary - 05 358 students
- Hillcrest Elementary - 04 316 students
- Bobcat Plains Academy Elementary School - 94 0 students
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.