Enrollment
270
Elementary
DISTRICT 183 · STATE 204
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DEUEL SCHOOL DISTRICT 19-4·NCES 460003601011
Clear Lake Elementary - 02
410 5th St W, Clear Lake, SD 57226 · (605) 874-2162 · Deuel County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY43-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL270 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 34% of South Dakota public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats 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
12.2:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 15.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
22%
59 students
DISTRICT 21% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 27 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 49 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 34 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 44 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 45 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 33 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 38 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (49) is 29% larger than its 5th grade class (38).
Student demographics
9%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 11% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Deuel School District 19-4. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
SD Smarter Balanced 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
38.8%
SD avg 50.3% . -8.3pp since 2022
Math
37.1%
SD avg 47.5% . -7.1pp since 2022
What this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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 8 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 7 points.
SD Smarter Balanced results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 38.8% | 37.1% |
| 2023-24 | 39.3% | 43.8% |
| 2022-23 | 47.1% | 44.2% |
% 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
45.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.1%
based on SD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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 Clear Lake Elementary - 02
Clear Lake Elementary - 02's state test result (45.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clear Lake Elementary - 02 this school | 270 | 21.9% | 45.9% |
| Parker Elementary - 02 Parker | 238 | 19.7% | 48.3% |
| Miller Elementary - 02 Miller | 231 | 22.5% | 65.0% |
| Garretson Elementary - 02 Garretson | 246 | 24.8% | 40.7% |
| Lead-Deadwood Elementary - 03 Deadwood | 243 | 21.4% | 41.1% |
| McCook Central Elementary - 02 Salem | 225 | 25.3% | 41.9% |
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 Clear Lake Elementary - 02 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In South Dakota |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.9% | #118 of 193 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.1% | #160 of 199 ▼ 28 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.8% | #149 of 202 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 270 | #113 of 331 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.2:1 | #25 of 131 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 9.2% | #126 of 131 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 21.9% | #168 of 209 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.3% | #72 of 87 |
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
270
+11 (+4%) vs 2020
-11% since 1990-91, when it was 304
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
was 14.4:1
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 | 270 | 22.1 | 12.2:1 | 22% (59) |
| 2023-24 | 274 | 20.5 | 13.3:1 | 19% (51) |
| 2022-23 | 259 | 20.8 | 12.4:1 | 17% (43) |
| 2020-21 | 259 | 18 | 14.4:1 | 26% (67) |
| 2017-18 | 282 | 19.9 | 14.2:1 | 34% (95) |
| 2015-16 | 286 | 18 | 15.9:1 | 39% (112) |
| 2010-11 | 273 | 16 | 17.1:1 | 2% (5) |
| 2000-01 | 270 | 17 | 15.9:1 | 28% (75) |
| 1990-91 | 304 | 17 | 17.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Clear Lake Elementary - 02.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (282 to 270); teachers up 11% (19.9 to 22.1).
About Clear Lake Elementary - 02
Students in Clear Lake, South Dakota, attend Clear Lake Elementary - 02, a medium-sized elementary school. The latest federal count shows 270 students in pre-K through 5. Against the 204-student average for elementary schools in South Dakota, enrollment here is 32% higher.
Deuel School District 19-4 oversees Clear Lake Elementary - 02 and 2 other schools, with 550 students in total.
White students are the large majority at Clear Lake Elementary - 02, with 95% of enrollment. Other groups include 5% Hispanic. The county population is about 95% White, within a few points of the school. The chance that two students picked at random at Clear Lake Elementary - 02 belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 9%.
Clear Lake Elementary - 02 employs 22.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 12.2:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in South Dakota is 15.4:1, higher than at this school. Clear Lake Elementary - 02's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 22%. That is close to the 20% average for public schools in Deuel County.
allk12 grades Clear Lake Elementary - 02 a C. The grade compares the school only with South Dakota public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
The model predicts 54.1% for a school in South Dakota with Clear Lake Elementary - 02's free or reduced-price lunch share. Clear Lake Elementary - 02 posts 45.9%.
Clear Lake Elementary - 02 is located in Deuel County, where median household income is about $83,112, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 25%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Clear Lake Elementary - 02 is one of 4 public schools in Deuel County, which together enroll about 775 students.
The shortest distance from Clear Lake Elementary - 02 to another public school is less than a tenth of a mile, to Deuel High School - 01. The five-mile area around Clear Lake Elementary - 02 holds 2 other public schools. Clear Lake Elementary - 02 comes in 4th of 5 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The school's locale code, Rural: Remote, means it is in rural territory far from an urban area.
The student count in 2024-25 was 270, 4% above the 259 of 2020-21. The number of students per teacher fell from 14.4 to 12.2 over 4 years.
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Deuel County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
4,328
Census ACS
Median income
$83,112
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
4
775 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Deuel School District 19-4
- Deuel High School - 01High · 176 students
- Clear Lake Middle School - 04Middle · 104 students
Other schools in Clear Lake
- Deuel High School - 01High · 176 students
- Clear Lake Middle School - 04Middle · 104 students
Other Clear Lake Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 4 states are named Clear Lake Elementary. Clear Lake Elementary - 02 is the 4th largest of the 5.
- Clear Lake Elementary SchoolOXFORD, MI · 425 students
- Clear Lake Elementary SchoolKeizer, OR · 317 students
- Clear Lake Elementary SchoolClear Lake, WA · 314 students
- Clear Lake Elementary SchoolEugene, OR · 225 students
Nearby schools
- Deuel High School - 010.0 mi · 176
- Clear Lake Middle School - 040.0 mi · 104
- Deubrook Elementary - 0312.9 mi · 225
- Claremont Colony Elementary - 0413.4 mi · 17
- Red Willow Colony School - 0915.7 mi · 26
- Estelline High School - 0116.1 mi · 83
Frequently asked questions
About Clear Lake Elementary - 02How large is Clear Lake Elementary - 02?
Clear Lake Elementary - 02 enrolls approximately 270 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Clear Lake Elementary - 02 serve?
Clear Lake Elementary - 02 serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Clear Lake Elementary - 02 have?
Clear Lake Elementary - 02 employs 22 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.2:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Clear Lake Elementary - 02?
At Clear Lake Elementary - 02, the student body is approximately 95% White, 5% Hispanic.
What district is Clear Lake Elementary - 02 in?
Clear Lake Elementary - 02 is part of Deuel School District 19-4.
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