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Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 5

General Beadle Elementary - 01, Rapid City, SD

CEP schoolGeneral Beadle Elementary - 01 is a public elementary school in Rapid City, part of Rapid City Area School District 51-4. It enrolled 483 students in 2024-25, with 18.6 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
483
Teachers (FTE)
26.0
Students per teacher
18.6
Grades
PK to 5

This school's ratio is 2.6 higher than the district figure of 16.0. The South Dakota average across schools is 14.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school18.6
District16.0
South Dakota14.2
United States15.3

School details

Address
10 Van Buren St, Rapid City, SD 57701
Phone
(605)394-1841
District
Rapid City Area School District 51-4
County
Pennington County
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Virtual
No
Locale
City: Small
NCES school ID
465982000536
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
483
Reduced-price lunch
0
Free or reduced-price lunch
483100.0% of enrollment.
Direct certification
220Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

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 Rapid City Area School District 51-4

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.