Hamlin Elementary - 09

Hamlin Elementary - 09 operates as a large elementary school in Hayti, South Dakota, run under Hamlin School District 28-3. Current enrollment sits at 472 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, South Dakota's public schools average about 204 students each, so Hamlin Elementary - 09 sits 131% above that benchmark.

Within Hamlin School District 28-3, which oversees 3 schools and 896 students, Hamlin Elementary - 09 is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hamlin Elementary - 09 logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%); the rest reads as 6% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Hamlin County as a whole.

On the resource side, On paper, Hamlin Elementary - 09 has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.4:1. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 36% of students at Hamlin Elementary - 09 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hamlin Elementary - 09 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.4%, the actual is 59.6%, a residual of +11.2 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Hamlin County put the typical household earns roughly $87,101 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Hamlin County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,533 students), Hamlin Elementary - 09 is one campus in the mix.

Hamlin High School - 01 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Hamlin Elementary - 09. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hamlin Elementary - 09 at 1st of 5; the average score across the group is 46.9%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hamlin Elementary - 09 has expanded 10%, going from 430 students in 2018 to 472 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 today.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.