Claremont Colony Elementary - 04

Claremont Colony Elementary - 04 operates as a rural-scale K-5 school in Castlewood, South Dakota, part of Castlewood School District 28-1. Current enrollment sits at 17 students spanning grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 204 students per school, that is 92% leaner than typical.

Claremont Colony Elementary - 04 is one of 4 schools operated by Castlewood School District 28-1, a district that educates 345 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Claremont Colony Elementary - 04 logs that nearly all students (100%) are White. By comparison, Hamlin County as a whole is about 92% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.4:1 average.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Hamlin County indicate the typical household earns roughly $87,101 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Claremont Colony Elementary - 04 is one of 10 public schools in Hamlin County (combined enrollment of about 1,533 students).

Castlewood Middle School - 03 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.9 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Claremont Colony Elementary - 04 has climbed 70%, going from 10 students in 2018 to 17 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 10.0:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 today.

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