Enrollment
356
Elementary
DISTRICT 315 · STATE 204
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ABERDEEN SCHOOL DISTRICT 06-1·NCES 460207000002
C C Lee Elementary - 05
1900 N State St, Aberdeen, SD 57401 · (605) 725-7500 · Brown County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY33-TOWNREGULAR SCHOOL356 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 93% of South Dakota public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded South Dakota public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 15.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
18%
63 students
DISTRICT 43% · STATE 42%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 47 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 59 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 60 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 65 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 64 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (47) is 23% smaller than its 5th grade class (61).
Student demographics
33%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 53% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
SD Smarter Balanced 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
66.0%
SD avg 50.3% . -3.5pp since 2022
Math
73.9%
SD avg 47.5% . +2.1pp since 2022
What this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all South Dakota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 47. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 2 points.
SD Smarter Balanced results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 66.0% | 73.9% |
| 2023-24 | 66.7% | 73.8% |
| 2022-23 | 69.5% | 71.8% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SD Smarter Balanced. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
69.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.8%
based on SD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% typical for South Dakota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among South Dakota's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like C C Lee Elementary - 05
C C Lee Elementary - 05's state test result (69.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| C C Lee Elementary - 05 this school | 356 | 17.7% | 69.3% |
| Tea Area Venture Elementary - 06 Tea | 379 | 20.6% | 58.9% |
| Pinedale Elementary - 11 Rapid City | 377 | 14.1% | 58.4% |
| West Elementary - 03 Spearfish | 322 | 17.1% | 56.0% |
| Lennox Elementary - 02 Lennox | 362 | 20.4% | 71.2% |
| Groton Area Elementary - 02 Groton | 278 | 23.4% | 58.7% |
Matched among South Dakota elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where C C Lee Elementary - 05 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In South Dakota | In Brown County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 69.3% | #14 of 193 | #2 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.9% | #21 of 199 ▼ 5 | #2 of 8 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 66.0% | #27 of 202 ▼ 5 | #3 of 8 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 356 | #75 of 331 | #2 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.8:1 | #82 of 131 | #7 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 33.2% | #86 of 131 | #6 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 17.7% | #183 of 209 | #7 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.7% | #44 of 87 | #3 of 6 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
356
-11 (-3%) vs 2020
-26% since 1990-91, when it was 478
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
was 16.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 356 | 24 | 14.8:1 | 18% (63) |
| 2023-24 | 373 | 23.9 | 15.6:1 | 16% (61) |
| 2022-23 | 371 | 24 | 15.4:1 | 16% (58) |
| 2020-21 | 367 | 23 | 16.0:1 | 16% (59) |
| 2017-18 | 403 | 25.7 | 15.7:1 | 19% (78) |
| 2015-16 | 450 | 25 | 18.0:1 | 20% (89) |
| 2010-11 | 427 | 26 | 16.4:1 | 17% (71) |
| 2000-01 | 322 | 16 | 20.1:1 | 12% (40) |
| 1990-91 | 478 | 23 | 20.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for C C Lee Elementary - 05.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (403 to 356); teachers down 6% (25.7 to 24).
About C C Lee Elementary - 05
C C Lee Elementary - 05 is a high-enrollment elementary school in Aberdeen, South Dakota, administered by Aberdeen School District 06-1. Its grade span covers kindergarten through 5, with 356 students on the rolls. Elementary schools in South Dakota average about 204 students, which makes this school 75% above average.
The district, Aberdeen School District 06-1, operates 10 schools serving 4,241 students.
White students account for 81% of the school's enrollment. After that, the student body is 6% multiracial, 6% Native American, and 3% Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 33%.
The school had 24 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 14.8:1. It is about the same as the 15.4:1 average for elementary schools in South Dakota. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 18%. Compared with the 35% average for public schools in Brown County, the school's rate is lower.
C C Lee Elementary - 05 earns an A on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 93% of South Dakota public elementary schools.
C C Lee Elementary - 05's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 69.3% is 13.5 points above the 55.8% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
In the wider Brown County area, the median household earns about $70,898 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 34% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Across Brown County, 22 public schools serve about 5,354 students.
The closest school to C C Lee Elementary - 05 is Holgate Middle School - 02, located about 0.3 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of C C Lee Elementary - 05. Among its closest neighbors with test data, C C Lee Elementary - 05 is 1st of 6 on proficiency.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Town: Remote.
Over 4 years, enrollment fell by 11 students, from 367 to 356. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio dropped to 14.8:1, from 16.0:1.
This page is set up for the C C Lee Elementary - 05 community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Brown County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
37,877
Census ACS
Median income
$70,898
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
22
5,354 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Aberdeen School District 06-1
- Central High School - 01High · 1,384 students
- Holgate Middle School - 02Middle · 497 students
- Simmons Middle School - 03Middle · 464 students
- Simmons Elementary - 10Elementary · 386 students
- May Overby Elementary - 09Elementary · 327 students
- O M Tiffany Elementary - 11Elementary · 304 students
Other schools in Aberdeen
- Central High School - 01High · 1,384 students
- Holgate Middle School - 02Middle · 497 students
- Simmons Middle School - 03Middle · 464 students
- Simmons Elementary - 10Elementary · 386 students
- May Overby Elementary - 09Elementary · 327 students
- O M Tiffany Elementary - 11Elementary · 304 students
Nearby schools
- Holgate Middle School - 020.3 mi · 497
- O M Tiffany Elementary - 110.8 mi · 304
- New Beginnings - 891.6 mi · 8
- Mike Miller Elementary - 072.1 mi · 282
- Lincoln Elementary - 082.1 mi · 233
- SDSBVI High School - 022.3 mi · 9
Frequently asked questions
About C C Lee Elementary - 05How large is C C Lee Elementary - 05?
C C Lee Elementary - 05 enrolls approximately 356 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does C C Lee Elementary - 05 serve?
C C Lee Elementary - 05 serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at C C Lee Elementary - 05?
The student-to-teacher ratio at C C Lee Elementary - 05 is approximately 14.8:1 (24 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at C C Lee Elementary - 05?
At C C Lee Elementary - 05, the student body is approximately 81% White, 3% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is C C Lee Elementary - 05 in?
C C Lee Elementary - 05 is part of Aberdeen School District 06-1.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.