Grass Ranch Colony Elementary - 13

Grass Ranch Colony Elementary - 13 is a micro-enrollment elementary school in Kimball, South Dakota, operated by Kimball School District 07-2. The school instructs 53 students in grades K through 8. By comparison, South Dakota's public schools average about 204 students each, so Grass Ranch Colony Elementary - 13 sits 74% leaner than that benchmark.

Kimball School District 07-2 comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 347 students; Grass Ranch Colony Elementary - 13 is among them.

On the student-mix side, Grass Ranch Colony Elementary - 13 lists that 100% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Grass Ranch Colony Elementary - 13 lists 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting Grass Ranch Colony Elementary - 13 higher than the state norm the norm. Around 6% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Brule County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Grass Ranch Colony Elementary - 13 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.7%, the actual is 55.1%, a residual of -5.6 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Brule County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $73,720 per year, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Brule County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,249 students), Grass Ranch Colony Elementary - 13 is one campus in the mix.

Grass Ranch Colony High School - 15 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Grass Ranch Colony Elementary - 13 ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 45.1%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 43%: 37 students in 2018 compared to 53 in 2025.

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