Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8
Southwest Middle School - 38, Rapid City, SD
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 614
- Teachers (FTE)
- 37.0
- Students per teacher
- 16.6
- Grades
- 6 to 8
This school's ratio is about the same as 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.
School details
- Address
- 4501 Park Dr, Rapid City, SD 57702
- Phone
- (605)394-6792
- County
- Pennington County
- Level
- Middle
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- City: Small
- NCES school ID
- 465982000457
School meals
- Free lunch
- 63
- Reduced-price lunch
- 16
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 7912.9% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 33Students 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
- South Middle School - 36 618 students
- East Middle School - 30 613 students
- West Middle School - 37 591 students
- North Middle School - 35 418 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.