Elkton Elementary - 02

Set in Elkton, South Dakota, Elkton Elementary - 02 is a medium-sized elementary campus, one of the schools within Elkton School District 05-3. It instructs 186 students across grades pre-K through 6.

Elkton School District 05-3 runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 429 students. Elkton Elementary - 02 is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Elkton Elementary - 02 logs that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 19% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Brookings County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. Around 43% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Brookings County's rate of about 20%.

After controlling for student poverty, Elkton Elementary - 02 tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 45.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.1%.

In the surrounding community, Brookings County reports that the typical household earns roughly $70,064 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Brookings County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,921 students), Elkton Elementary - 02 is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Elkton High School - 01, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Elkton Elementary - 02.

Elkton Elementary - 02 operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Elkton Elementary - 02's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 188 (now 186). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 today.

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