Elkton Jr. High - 03

Elkton Jr. High - 03, a rural-scale 6-8 campus in Elkton, South Dakota, one of the schools within Elkton School District 05-3, caters to 65 students, covering grades 7 through 8. By comparison, South Dakota's public schools average about 187 students each, so Elkton Jr. High - 03 sits 65% smaller than that benchmark.

Elkton Jr. High - 03 is one of 5 schools operated by Elkton School District 05-3, a district that caters to 429 students overall.

Demographically, Elkton Jr. High - 03 records that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 34% of students at Elkton Jr. High - 03 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Brookings County runs at roughly 20%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Elkton Jr. High - 03 falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 49.1%; this one comes in at 26.3%, -22.9 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Brookings County put median household earnings sit near $70,064, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Brookings County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,921 students), Elkton Jr. High - 03 is one campus in the mix.

Elkton Elementary - 02 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Elkton Jr. High - 03's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 66 (now 65). Class-load math has fell: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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