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Sioux Falls district to expand junior kindergarten to four schools; enrollment opens Feb. 3
Summary
District leaders announced an expansion of the Junior Kindergarten Academy to four elementary schools — Robert Frost, JFK, Cleveland and Hayward — for fall 2025. Enrollment opens Feb. 3 and a family preview event is March 6.
Sioux Falls School District 49-5 announced an expansion of its Junior Kindergarten Academy to four elementary schools, officials said, and opened enrollment Feb. 3 for the 2025–26 school year.
Diane Conrad, director of community relations, told the board that junior kindergarten "is a program for children who will be 5 years old on or before September 1st, but who may benefit from some additional time to develop their literacy and numeracy skills, finding gross motor development, social, emotional growth." She said the…
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