Summary:
Schools in ZIP code 57055 include one school, Renberg Elementary - 42, serving kindergarten through grade 5 and enrolling 155 students. Its 2025–2026 all-grades math proficiency was close to the South Dakota rate: 42% at Renberg compared with 44% statewide. English language arts (ELA) was a much clearer concern: 29% were proficient, compared with 49% statewide and 47% in the Sioux Falls School District 49-5. The most important finding is that Renberg’s ELA result was 20 percentage points below the state, while its overall math result was only 2 points below.
Within Renberg, fourth-grade math stands out as the strongest result, while fifth-grade science is the weakest. In 2025–2026, 69% of fourth graders were proficient in math, 21 points above the state and 26 above the district. By contrast, 14% of fifth graders were proficient in science, 27 points below the state and 26 below the district. Math also varied sharply by grade: fifth-grade proficiency was 24%, 19 points below the state, while third-grade math was 44%, 7 points below. ELA was below the state in every tested grade, ranging from 23% in grade 4 to 33% in grade 5.
Recent results show ELA and fifth-grade science moving in the wrong direction relative to the state, while all-grades math remained steady. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Renberg’s ELA proficiency fell 4 points and its gap with the state widened from 18 to 20 points; math rose by less than a point, and its state gap stayed near 2 points. Fifth-grade science fell 18 points, while the state rate rose by about 1 point. SchoolDigger ranked Renberg 170th of 203 schools in 2025–2026, at the 16th percentile; its reported rankings were 153rd of 201 (24th percentile) in 2023–2024 and 196th of 300 (35th percentile) in 2024–2025. As context, the student-teacher ratio was 15.3 in 2024–2025, and 56% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism was 23% in 2025–2026, above the state’s 20% but below the district’s 25%. Because this ZIP-code list contains only one school, it cannot show how Renberg compares with other local schools.
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