Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07
Brookings, SD · Elementary School
Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07 is a elementary school in Brookings, SD with 473 students enrolled and a 64% proficiency rate. Part of Brookings School District 05-1. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07 is a elementary school located in Brookings, South Dakota. The school serves 473 students. The student-to-teacher ratio is 13.5:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 64% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
17% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07 is part of the Brookings School District 05-1 in South Dakota.
How This School Compares
Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07 has 473 students enrolled, making it smaller than the average school in Brookings School District 05-1 (572 students). Its 64% proficiency rate is 3 percentage points above the district average of 61%. Compared to the South Dakota state average of 56%, the school performs 8 points higher. With a 13.5:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.
Frequently Asked Questions
Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07 has 473 students enrolled. The student-to-teacher ratio is 13.5:1.
According to EDFacts data, 64% of students at Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07 meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Dakota Prairie Elementary - 07 is part of the Brookings School District 05-1 in Brookings, South Dakota. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.