Armour High School - 01

Set in Armour, South Dakota, Armour High School - 01 is a rural-scale high school, part of Armour School District 21-1. It instructs 57 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, South Dakota's public schools average about 225 students each, so Armour High School - 01 sits 75% smaller than that benchmark.

Armour School District 21-1 comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 226 students; Armour High School - 01 is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Armour High School - 01 logs that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 5% Black, 4% Hispanic, 4% Native American.

On the resource side, The school employs 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.6:1, putting Armour High School - 01 tighter than the state norm the norm. About 14% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

In the area at large, Douglas County reports that the typical household earns roughly $86,442 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Douglas County's 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 353 students), Armour High School - 01 is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Armour Middle School - 03, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Armour High School - 01.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Armour High School - 01's enrollment has rose 8% since 2018, when it stood at 53 (now 57). Black enrollment moved from 0% to 5% across the same window.

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