Blunt Elementary - 03

Blunt Elementary - 03, a minimally staffed K-5 school in Blunt, South Dakota, run under Agar-Blunt-Onida School District 58-3, hosts 14 students, covering grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 93% leaner than the state mean of about 204.

Blunt Elementary - 03 is one of 4 schools operated by Agar-Blunt-Onida School District 58-3, a district that teaches 230 students overall.

Demographically, Blunt Elementary - 03 logs that White students make up the majority at 71%. Other groups include 21% Native American, 7% Hispanic. By comparison, Hughes County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Blunt Elementary - 03 has 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 7.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Hughes County's rate of about 35%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Hughes County indicate median household income runs about $81,395, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Hughes County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,919 students), of which Blunt Elementary - 03 is one.

Sully Buttes High School - 07 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 13.6 miles from this campus.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Trend over the last 6 years. Blunt Elementary - 03's enrollment has edged down 60% since 2018, when it stood at 35 (now 14). Over the same period, the White share expanded from 60% to 71%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 7.8:1 in 2018 to 3.7:1 today.

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