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South Dakota: the counties with the most racially diverse public schools

30 counties

South Dakota counties ranked by the diversity index, the chance that two public school students picked at random from the county belong to different racial or ethnic groups. Counties need at least 3 schools and 1,000 students to qualify. The median ranked county is at 30.4%.

#CountyStateSchoolsStudentsDiversity index
1Beadle CountySD163,54466.2%
2Moody CountySD81,19365.1%
3Roberts CountySD132,16261.1%
4Charles Mix CountySD141,96660.0%
5Pennington CountySD3816,18659.1%
6Minnehaha CountySD7034,91956.8%
7Hughes CountySD72,91955.5%
8Brule CountySD91,24953.2%
9Brown CountySD225,35442.8%
10Yankton CountySD103,32139.4%
11Davison CountySD133,13736.3%
12Brookings CountySD204,92134.5%
13Grant CountySD71,07233.6%
14Codington CountySD174,56131.1%
15Union CountySD143,03730.7%
16Lincoln CountySD2510,53030.1%
17Lawrence CountySD123,18326.7%
18Meade CountySD153,39526.6%
19Butte CountySD81,50425.9%
20Lake CountySD142,00923.1%
21Dewey CountySD91,46622.2%
22Kingsbury CountySD151,06121.0%
23Bon Homme CountySD141,07119.7%
24Hutchinson CountySD181,37619.5%
25Hamlin CountySD101,53318.3%
26Turner CountySD151,45918.1%
27Spink CountySD191,15518.0%
28McCook CountySD121,17215.0%
29Todd CountySD122,6109.1%
30Oglala Lakota CountySD113,6563.9%

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