Enrollment
50
Middle
DISTRICT 94 · STATE 187
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GAYVILLE-VOLIN SCHOOL DISTRICT 63-1·NCES 462649000844
Gayville-Volin Middle School - 03
100 Kingsbury St, Gayville, SD 57031 · (605) 267-4476 · Yankton County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE42-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL50 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 18% of South Dakota public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded South Dakota public middle schools
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
4 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.1:1 · STATE 13.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
34%
17 students
DISTRICT 28% · STATE 42%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 16 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 16 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 18 | 36% |
Student demographics
35%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 22% · STATE 53% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Gayville-Volin Middle School - 03→Gayville-Volin High School - 01
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SD Smarter Balanced 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
35.4%
SD avg 50.3% . -7.0pp since 2022
Math
25.0%
SD avg 47.5% . +1.3pp since 2022
What this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all South Dakota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 47. Reading and writing scores are down about 7 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 1 points.
SD Smarter Balanced results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 35.4% | 25.0% |
| 2023-24 | 34.7% | 28.6% |
| 2022-23 | 42.4% | 23.7% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SD Smarter Balanced. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of SD schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
32.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.1%
based on SD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 49% typical for South Dakota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Gayville-Volin Middle School - 03
Gayville-Volin Middle School - 03's state test result (32.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gayville-Volin Middle School - 03 this school | 50 | 34.0% | 32.7% |
| Wolsey Wessington Middle School - 03 Wolsey | 75 | 32.0% | 32.3% |
| Miller Jr. High - 04 Miller | 74 | 28.4% | 52.8% |
| Elkton Jr. High - 03 Elkton | 65 | 33.8% | 26.3% |
| Clark Middle School - 03 Clark | 72 | 25.0% | 30.5% |
| Redfield Middle School - 02 Redfield | 91 | 28.6% | 33.6% |
Matched among South Dakota middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Gayville-Volin Middle School - 03 ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In South Dakota |
|---|---|---|
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 50 | #118 of 165 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
50
-34 (-40%) vs 2020
+56% since 1990-91, when it was 32
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
was 42.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50 | 3.7 | 13.6:1 | 34% (17) |
| 2023-24 | 52 | 3.7 | 14.3:1 | 37% (19) |
| 2022-23 | 63 | 3.9 | 16.3:1 | 27% (17) |
| 2020-21 | 84 | 2 | 42.0:1 | 24% (20) |
| 2017-18 | 41 | 3.1 | 13.3:1 | 34% (14) |
| 2015-16 | 31 | 2 | 15.5:1 | 48% (15) |
| 2010-11 | 64 | 4 | 16.0:1 | 50% (32) |
| 2000-01 | 50 | 3 | 16.7:1 | 50% (25) |
| 1990-91 | 32 | 1 | 32.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Gayville-Volin Middle School - 03.
Since 2017-18: students up 22% (41 to 50); teachers up 19% (3.1 to 3.7).
About Gayville-Volin Middle School - 03
Gayville-Volin Middle School - 03 is a very small middle-grades school for students in Gayville, South Dakota. Enrollment stands at 50 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts enrollment 73% below the 187-student average for middle schools in South Dakota.
Gayville-Volin School District 63-1 has 3 schools; together they serve 281 students.
Of every 100 students at Gayville-Volin Middle School - 03, about 80 are White. It is also 8% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 4% Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 35, compared with 70 nationally.
The student-to-teacher ratio at Gayville-Volin Middle School - 03 is 13.6:1, based on 3.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for middle schools in South Dakota is about 13.4:1. Gayville-Volin Middle School - 03 counts 34% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is in line with the 34% average for public schools in Yankton County.
Gayville-Volin Middle School - 03 holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 18% of South Dakota public middle schools.
Gayville-Volin Middle School - 03 scores 16.4 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results: 32.7% actual versus 49.1% predicted. That puts it in the bottom 10% of South Dakota schools on BeatsExpectations.
The school is in Yankton County, where the median household earns about $72,821 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 31% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. Gayville-Volin Middle School - 03 shares Yankton County with 10 other public schools.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Gayville-Volin Elementary - 02, is less than a tenth of a mile. There are 2 other public schools within five miles. On state test proficiency, Gayville-Volin Middle School - 03 ranks 5th in a group of 6 nearby schools.
Its location is classified as Rural: Distant by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 40%, from 84 to 50. Students per teacher dropped from 42.0 in 2020-21 to 13.6 in 2024-25.
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Yankton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
23,414
Census ACS
Median income
$72,821
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
11
3,321 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Gayville-Volin School District 63-1
- Gayville-Volin Elementary - 02Elementary · 136 students
- Gayville-Volin High School - 01High · 95 students
Other schools in Gayville
- Gayville-Volin Elementary - 02Elementary · 136 students
- Gayville-Volin High School - 01High · 95 students
Nearby schools
- Gayville-Volin Elementary - 020.0 mi · 136
- Gayville-Volin High School - 010.0 mi · 95
- Irene - Wakonda Elementary - 028.3 mi · 161
- WYNOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL10.4 mi · 82
- WYNOT MIDDLE SCHOOL10.4 mi · 40
- WYNOT HIGH SCHOOL10.4 mi · 56
Frequently asked questions
About Gayville-Volin Middle School - 03What is the total enrollment at Gayville-Volin Middle School - 03?
Gayville-Volin Middle School - 03 enrolls approximately 50 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Gayville-Volin Middle School - 03 serve?
Gayville-Volin Middle School - 03 serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Gayville-Volin Middle School - 03?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Gayville-Volin Middle School - 03 is approximately 13.6:1 (4 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Gayville-Volin Middle School - 03?
Student demographics at Gayville-Volin Middle School - 03 are roughly 80% White, 8% Hispanic, 4% Black, 8% Two or more.
What district is Gayville-Volin Middle School - 03 in?
Gayville-Volin Middle School - 03 is part of Gayville-Volin School District 63-1.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.