C C Lee Elementary - 05

Located at 1900 N State St, in Aberdeen, South Dakota, C C Lee Elementary - 05 is a sprawling K-5 school that hosts 356 students (grades K through 5), overseen by Aberdeen School District 06-1. Compared to the state average of about 204 students per school, that is 75% bigger than typical.

Aberdeen School District 06-1 runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 4,241 students. C C Lee Elementary - 05 is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, C C Lee Elementary - 05 records that nearly all students (81%) are White; the rest breaks down as 6% multiracial, 6% Native American, 3% Hispanic.

On the resource side, C C Lee Elementary - 05 logs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. The state averages about 15.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 18% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Brown County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, C C Lee Elementary - 05 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.8%, the actual is 69.3%, a residual of +13.5 points.

In the area at large, Brown County reports that median household income runs about $70,898, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Brown County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,354 students), C C Lee Elementary - 05 is one campus in the mix.

Holgate Middle School - 02 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around C C Lee Elementary - 05. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts C C Lee Elementary - 05 at 1st of 6; the average score across the group is 42.8%.

C C Lee Elementary - 05 operates from a town-based location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 12%: 403 students in 2018 compared to 356 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.