Hillside Colony Elementary - 04

Hillside Colony Elementary - 04 is a very small elementary school located in Doland, South Dakota. The school counted 8 students in 2024-25, covering kindergarten through 8. That is 96% below the average of about 204 students for elementary schools in South Dakota.

Doland School District 56-2 has 141 students in 6 schools, and Hillside Colony Elementary - 04 is one of those schools.

Of every 100 students at Hillside Colony Elementary - 04, about 100 are White.

Staffing at Hillside Colony Elementary - 04 comes to 1.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 7.5:1. Elementary schools in South Dakota have an average ratio of 15.4:1.

Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Spink County show that the median household earns about $70,139 a year, about 28% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Across Spink County, 22 public schools serve about 1,155 students.

Hillside Colony Elementary - 04's closest public school neighbor is Clark Colony Elementary - 05, about 4.9 miles away. The ten-mile area around Hillside Colony Elementary - 04 holds 3 other public schools.

NCES describes the area around Hillside Colony Elementary - 04 as Rural: Remote, meaning in rural territory far from an urban area.

Federal data put enrollment at 20 in 2020-21 and 8 in 2024-25; the school may have served different grades in those years. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio dropped to 7.5:1, from 10.0:1.

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