Custer High School - 01

Custer High School - 01 is a secondary school of mid-sized scale in Custer, South Dakota, one of the schools within Custer School District 16-1, works with 272 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, South Dakota's public schools average about 225 students each, so Custer High School - 01 sits 21% above that benchmark.

Custer School District 16-1 comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 887 students; Custer High School - 01 is among them.

On demographics, Custer High School - 01 shows that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.6:1 average. Roughly 27% of students at Custer High School - 01 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

In the broader community, Custer County reports that the typical household earns roughly $84,112 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Custer County's 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 903 students), Custer High School - 01 is one campus in the mix.

Custer Jr. High - 05 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Custer High School - 01.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Custer High School - 01's enrollment has expanded 13% since 2018, when it stood at 240 (now 272). The White share of enrollment fell from 89% to 85% over that span.

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