16159 Second Street
PO Box 90, Piedmont, S.D. 57769
(605) 787-5292

Ethan Dschaak, Principal
Amanda Christensen, Assistant Principal

Office Hours:
Monday - Friday: 7:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Email the main Office if student is going to be tardy or absent.
School Hours:
7:35 a.m. - 2:45 p.m

Piedmont Valley Elementary is a thriving elementary school that houses 542 students in the Meade School District. Our wonderful school houses Pre-Kindergarten through 4th grade and has incurred tremendous growth over the past decade.

The Meade School District’s mission statement is, “To Build Knowledge and Skills for success today and tomorrow.”

We try extremely hard to follow this mantra at PVE as we believe this mission statement is the key to future successes.

Our current building was constructed in 2011. It was, and still is, a beautiful state of the art building that allows us to teach our students in a 21st Century manner. In order to support our student’s we have thirty nine classrooms and eleven office spaces. We also have an Art & Science Room that can house up to forty students and a beautiful multi-purpose room that allows us to have an expansive area for Physical Education classes and lunches for all grade levels. In addition, the old gym, is a charming facility that is placed within a few steps of our school that we use for Physical Education classes. This building was built in the 1950’s through the hard work of the citizens of Piedmont and was constructed free of the tax payer dollar through the efforts of hundreds of volunteers.

Our school is a technology based 1-1 school in which every student in grades 3rd -4th has access to an I-Pad. Our second grade students enjoy twelve i-pads in each of their classrooms and our Kindergarten-First grade students all have access to ten i-pads in each classroom. In addition, we have a computer lab with twenty-nine mac-mini computers.

Piedmont Valley Elementary is a school that enjoys a strong reputation for academic excellence and is considered to be a safe, comfortable place where kids get to enjoy their educational experience.

Students at Piedmont Valley Elementary enjoy the following:
1.) 1:19 Student to Teacher Ratio.
2.) 39 General Education & Special Education Classrooms.
3.) 11 Office spaces.
4.) 26 General Education Classroom Teachers.
5.) 7 Special Education Teachers.
6.) 8 Para-Professionals.
7.) 3 Administrative Assistants.
8.) 1.5 Administrators.

Additional Information:
Grades K-2: 7:45 a.m. (tardy after 7:55 a.m.)
Grades 3-4: 7:35 a.m. (tardy after 7:45 a.m.)
Lunch Times: KG: 10:50 - 11:25 a.m. (11:15 a.m. - 11:25 a.m. Recess)  1st: 11:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. (12:05 p.m. -12:15 p.m. Recess) 2nd: 11:20 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. (11:40 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. Recess) 3rd: 12:10 p.m. - 12:40 p.m. (12:30 p.m. - 12:40 p.m. Recess) 4th: 12:45 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. (1:05 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. Recess)
Dismissal Times: KG-1:  2:35 p.m.,  2-3: 2:40 p.m., 4: 2:45 p.m. Upon dismissal from school, students must leave the building and playground and are to go directly home except bus students who will be going to their respective buses.

On mornings when school is cancelled, every attempt will be made to notify the following radio and television stations by 6:00 a.m. - 6:30 a.m.:

KBHB, KOTA, KAT, FOX, KIMM, KKMK, KKLS, KRCS, KSQY, KIQK, KTOQ, KDDX, KZZI, KDSJ, and television stations KOTA, KEVN, KNBN and KELO. 

As an overlay to the announcements as listed above, parents will be notified by an automated telephone call. In addition, both the district website and social media outlets, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter will run the announcement.