Colman-Egan Jr. High - 02

As a minimally staffed intermediate school in Colman, South Dakota, Colman-Egan Jr. High - 02 educates 36 students from grades 7 through 8, one of the schools within Colman-Egan School District 50-5. Compared to the state average of about 187 students per school, that is 81% smaller than typical.

Colman-Egan School District 50-5 runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 329 students. Colman-Egan Jr. High - 02 is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Colman-Egan Jr. High - 02 shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%). Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.4:1, putting Colman-Egan Jr. High - 02 tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 33% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Moody County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Colman-Egan Jr. High - 02 is in the bottom 10% of South Dakota public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 49.4%; Colman-Egan Jr. High - 02 posts 24.8%, -24.6 points below that line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Moody County indicate median household earnings sit near $78,427, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Colman-Egan Jr. High - 02 is one of 8 public schools in Moody County (combined enrollment of about 1,193 students).

Nearest neighbor: Colman Elementary - 03, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Colman-Egan Jr. High - 02 comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.5%.

Colman-Egan Jr. High - 02 operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Colman-Egan Jr. High - 02's enrollment has fell 8% since 2018, when it stood at 39 (now 36). The White share of enrollment decreased from 95% to 83% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

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