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Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

South Middle School - 36, Rapid City, SD

South Middle School - 36 is a public middle school in Rapid City, part of Rapid City Area School District 51-4. It enrolled 618 students in 2024-25, with 13.7 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
618
Teachers (FTE)
45.0
Students per teacher
13.7
Grades
6 to 8

This school's ratio is 2.3 lower 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 school13.7
District16.0
South Dakota14.2
United States15.3

School details

Address
2 Indiana St, Rapid City, SD 57701
Phone
(605)394-4024
District
Rapid City Area School District 51-4
County
Pennington County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Virtual
No
Locale
City: Small
NCES school ID
465982000533
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
331
Reduced-price lunch
43
Free or reduced-price lunch
37460.5% of enrollment.
Direct certification
191Students 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 middle 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.