Corsica-Stickney Jr. High - 03

Corsica-Stickney Jr. High - 03 operates as a micro-enrollment junior high in Corsica, South Dakota, run under Corsica-Stickney 21-3. Current enrollment sits at 52 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, South Dakota's public schools average about 187 students each, so Corsica-Stickney Jr. High - 03 sits 72% below that benchmark.

Corsica-Stickney 21-3 comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 274 students; Corsica-Stickney Jr. High - 03 is among them.

In terms of who attends, Corsica-Stickney Jr. High - 03 logs that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 6% Black. Compared to Douglas County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.6:1. The state averages around 13.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 29% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Douglas County's rate of about 16%.

After controlling for student poverty, Corsica-Stickney Jr. High - 03 tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 55.1%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Douglas County indicate median household income runs about $86,442, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Douglas County's 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 353 students), Corsica-Stickney Jr. High - 03 is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Corsica-Stickney High School - 01, roughly 0.0 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Corsica-Stickney Jr. High - 03 ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 51.4%.

Corsica-Stickney Jr. High - 03 operates from a rural location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 44%: 36 students in 2018 compared to 52 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 100% to 88% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

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