Avon Elementary - 02

Avon Elementary - 02 operates as a very small primary school in Avon, South Dakota, part of Avon School District 04-1. Current enrollment sits at 74 students spanning grades K through 4. That puts it 64% leaner than the typical public school in South Dakota, which averages around 204 students.

Avon School District 04-1 comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 227 students; Avon Elementary - 02 is among them.

On demographics, Avon Elementary - 02 reports that nearly all students (84%) are White; the rest consists of 9% Hispanic, 5% Native American. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting Avon Elementary - 02 tighter than the state norm the norm. About 31% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Avon Elementary - 02 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.3%, the actual is 53.5%, a residual of +3.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Bon Homme County shows the typical household earns roughly $64,435 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Bon Homme County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,071 students), Avon Elementary - 02 is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Avon Middle School - 05, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Avon Elementary - 02 comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 55.7%.

Avon Elementary - 02 operates from a rural location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Avon Elementary - 02 has contracted 38%, going from 119 students in 2018 to 74 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 4% to 9% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.