Faith Elementary - 02

Faith Elementary - 02 is an elementary campus of very small scale in Faith, South Dakota, run under Faith School District 46-2, teacheing 69 students in grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, South Dakota's public schools average about 204 students each, so Faith Elementary - 02 sits 66% below that benchmark.

Across the 4 schools in Faith School District 46-2 (181 students total), Faith Elementary - 02 accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Faith Elementary - 02 reports that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 9% multiracial, 3% Native American. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Faith Elementary - 02 records 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. About 28% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Faith Elementary - 02 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.7%, the actual is 56.8%, a residual of +5.0 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Meade County put the typical household earns roughly $74,790 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Meade County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,395 students), Faith Elementary - 02 is one campus in the mix.

Faith Jr. High - 06 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Faith Elementary - 02 comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 26.3%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 8%: 64 students in 2018 compared to 69 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 89% to 83% over that span.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.