Middle · Regular · Grades 5 to 8

Dell Rapids Middle School - 03, Dell Rapids, SD

Dell Rapids Middle School - 03 is a public middle school in Dell Rapids, part of Dell Rapids School District 49-3. It enrolled 295 students in 2024-25, with 16.4 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 295
Teachers (FTE): 18.0
Students per teacher: 16.4
Grades: 5 to 8

This school's ratio is 1.6 higher than the district figure of 14.8. The South Dakota average across schools is 14.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school16.4

District14.8

South Dakota14.2

United States15.3

School details

Address: 1216 N Garfield Ave, Dell Rapids, SD 57022
Phone: (605)428-5473
District: Dell Rapids School District 49-3
County: Minnehaha County
Level: Middle
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Virtual: No
Locale: Rural: Distant
NCES school ID: 461812000837

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 26
Reduced-price lunch: 20
Free or reduced-price lunch: 4615.6% 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.

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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.