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Rapid City School District 51-4

South Dakota · runs pre-K through grade 12

NCES ID 4659820 · rcas.org · (605) 394-4031

There is no ZIP Code area where Rapid City School District 51-4 is the only school district serving the homes. It holds a real share in 7 of them and shares every one, with 7 different districts in total. A lookup that returns a single district name for any of those ZIP Codes is guessing which side of a line an address falls on.

It never has a ZIP Code to itself

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Rapid City School District 51-4, grouped by the ZIP Code area each block falls in. The Census Bureau publishes the blocks; the grouping is computed here, and it is the only place these particular numbers exist.

  • Homes inside the boundary43,913
  • Residents99,202
  • ZIP Code areas it reaches8
  • Where it is the only district0
  • Where it shares with another district7
  • Where it holds under half a percent1
  • Land area416 square miles
  • Homes per square mile105

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 57701 this district holds 98% of the homes; in 57751 it holds no homes at all. Same district, opposite answers, and a lookup that names it without the share tells the second household the same thing as the first.

  • ZIP Code 57701 · Rapid City, South Dakota98% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 57702 · Rapid City, South Dakota95% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 57703 · Rapid City, South Dakota86% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 57718 · Blackhawk, South Dakota79% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 57725 · Caputa, South Dakota43% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 57719 · Box Elder, South Dakota15% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 57744 · Hermosa, South Dakota8.2% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 57751 · Keystone, South Dakotano homes at all

What one name misses in the areas it leads

Rapid City School District 51-4 is the largest district in 4 ZIP Code areas, and not one of them is wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 2,910 of the 46,017 homes those areas hold. That count is computed here from census blocks; the lookups that answer this question with a single name never print it.

Rapid City School District 51-4 holds 5,843 of the 6,819 homes in ZIP Code 57703 · Rapid City, South Dakota, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 976 homes with Douglas School District 51-1.

In ZIP Code 57702 · Rapid City, South Dakota the split runs 14,719 to 770 and the larger part is Rapid City School District 51-4's: the rest is 770 homes with Hill City School District 51-2 and Meade School District 46-1.

ZIP Code 57718 · Blackhawk, South Dakota is a two-district area: 2,385 of its 3,034 homes are inside Rapid City School District 51-4, and the other 649 homes are with Meade School District 46-1. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

Rapid City School District 51-4 reaches into ZIP Code 57719 · Box Elder, South Dakota with 686 of its 4,512 homes, behind Douglas School District 51-1. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 686 homes.

Rapid City School District 51-4 is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 57744 · Hermosa, South Dakota — Custer School District 16-1 leads it — and Rapid City School District 51-4 holds 90 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

Rapid City School District 51-4 reaches into ZIP Code 57725 · Caputa, South Dakota with 30 of its 69 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and New Underwood School District 51-3 leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 30 homes.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Rapid City School District 51-4 runs pre-K through grade 12 itself, so an address it holds sees no change of authority between grade school and high school. The districts listed below are the ones that take the other homes in the ZIP Code areas it shares — Douglas School District 51-1, Custer School District 16-1 and Meade School District 46-1. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

  • Douglas School District 51-15,049 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Custer School District 16-11,103 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Meade School District 46-11,035 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Hill City School District 51-2945 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Oglala Lakota County School District 65-143 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
  • New Underwood School District 51-337 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Rapid City School District 51-4 shares ZIP Code areas with 7 different districts. The most frequent are Douglas School District 51-1, Meade School District 46-1, Custer School District 16-1 and Hill City School District 51-2. In a neighborhood this crowded the question is not which district serves the ZIP Code but which side of which street an address is on.

  • Douglas School District 51-13 shared ZIP areas
  • Meade School District 46-13 shared ZIP areas
  • Custer School District 16-11 shared ZIP area
  • Hill City School District 51-21 shared ZIP area
  • New Underwood School District 51-31 shared ZIP area
  • Oglala Lakota County School District 65-11 shared ZIP area

Rapid City School District 51-4 and Douglas School District 51-1 school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 57701 · Rapid City, South Dakota
  • ZIP Code 57703 · Rapid City, South Dakota
  • ZIP Code 57719 · Box Elder, South Dakota

Rapid City School District 51-4 and Meade School District 46-1 school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 57701 · Rapid City, South Dakota
  • ZIP Code 57702 · Rapid City, South Dakota
  • ZIP Code 57718 · Blackhawk, South Dakota

Rapid City School District 51-4 and Custer School District 16-1 school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 57744 · Hermosa, South Dakota

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What to do next

Ask the district office to confirm your street address: look on its site for a school locator, a find my school tool or an attendance zone map, or call the office.

A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not a boundary: in 7 of the 8 ZIP Code areas Rapid City School District 51-4 reaches, at least one other district holds a real share of the homes as well, and the line between them runs along streets. Only the district can say which side of that line an address is on.

District websites and phone numbers here come from the NCES Common Core of Data directory, 2024-25 school year, filed under the same district ID as the Census boundary files. Where it lists no usable website, none is printed rather than guessed.

If a house purchase depends on the answer, ask the district itself for written confirmation of that exact address. A listing is not a district record, and neither is this page.

Where these numbers come from

The homes were counted in the 2020 Census and the district lines are the 2026 boundary file, so a fast-growing area may have changed since; ZIP Codes here are the Census Bureau's ZIP Code Tabulation Areas; a share is a share of homes, not the chance that one address is in a district; and a district is not a school attendance zone. Every source, file and caveat is on the method page.