Freeman High School - 01

Freeman High School - 01 is one of the small four-year high schools in Freeman, South Dakota, overseen by Freeman School District 33-1, with 110 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 51% smaller than the typical public school in South Dakota, which averages around 225 students.

Freeman School District 33-1 runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 435 students. Freeman High School - 01 is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Freeman High School - 01 reports that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 15% Hispanic. By comparison, Hutchinson County as a whole is about 91% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Freeman High School - 01 logs 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.6:1 average. About 31% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the surrounding community, census data for Hutchinson County shows median household income runs about $73,977, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Hutchinson County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,376 students), of which Freeman High School - 01 is one.

Nearest neighbor: Freeman Jr High - 05, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 36%: 81 students in 2018 compared to 110 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 96% to 80%.

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