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Enrollment
497
Middle
DISTRICT 481 · STATE 187
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ABERDEEN SCHOOL DISTRICT 06-1·NCES 460207000005
Holgate Middle School - 02
2200 N Dakota St, Aberdeen, SD 57401 · (605) 725-7700 · Brown County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE33-TOWNREGULAR SCHOOL497 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 69% of South Dakota public middle schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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
14.5:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 13.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
31%
155 students
DISTRICT 43% · STATE 42%
Community
1
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 | 168 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 154 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 175 | 35% |
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 49% · 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
Holgate Middle School - 02→Central High School - 01
Based on grade levels within Aberdeen School District 06-1. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
SD Smarter Balanced 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
63.2%
SD avg 50.3% . -0.4pp since 2022
Math
52.2%
SD avg 47.5% . +1.2pp since 2022
What this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all South Dakota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 47. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2022, while math scores are up about 1 points.
SD Smarter Balanced results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 63.2% | 52.2% |
| 2023-24 | 58.1% | 56.0% |
| 2022-23 | 63.6% | 51.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
50.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.2%
based on SD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% typical for South Dakota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among South Dakota's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Holgate Middle School - 02
Holgate Middle School - 02's state test result (50.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holgate Middle School - 02 this school | 497 | 31.2% | 50.9% |
| Vermillion Middle School - 02 Vermillion | 343 | 30.0% | 52.5% |
| Georgia Morse Middle School - 02 Pierre | 672 | 29.0% | 53.6% |
| Stagebarn Middle School - 10 Summerset | 432 | 28.2% | 46.6% |
| Watertown Middle School - 02 Watertown | 575 | 35.0% | 52.6% |
| Watertown Intermediate School - 13 Watertown | 532 | 38.5% | 51.1% |
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 Holgate Middle School - 02 ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In South Dakota |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.9% | #25 of 64 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.2% | #18 of 64 ▼ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.2% | #13 of 65 ▲ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 497 | #25 of 165 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.5:1 | #21 of 42 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.4% | #20 of 42 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 31.2% | #28 of 65 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.8% | #21 of 26 |
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
497
-31 (-6%) vs 2020
+3% since 1990-91, when it was 482
Student : Teacher
14.5:1
was 17.6:1
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 | 497 | 34.3 | 14.5:1 | 31% (155) |
| 2023-24 | 490 | 34.3 | 14.3:1 | 26% (128) |
| 2022-23 | 512 | 33.7 | 15.2:1 | 28% (145) |
| 2020-21 | 528 | 30 | 17.6:1 | 25% (132) |
| 2017-18 | 522 | 33.1 | 15.8:1 | 33% (173) |
| 2015-16 | 502 | 30 | 16.7:1 | 32% (163) |
| 2010-11 | 406 | 26 | 15.6:1 | 23% (95) |
| 2000-01 | 424 | 30 | 14.1:1 | 19% (82) |
| 1990-91 | 482 | 31 | 15.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Holgate Middle School - 02.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (522 to 497); teachers up 4% (33.1 to 34.3).
About Holgate Middle School - 02
Holgate Middle School - 02 is classified as a middle-grades school. It is located in Aberdeen, South Dakota. It had 497 students in 2024-25, spanning grades 6 through 8. Middle schools in South Dakota have about 187 students on average; enrollment here is 166% higher.
The district, Aberdeen School District 06-1, has 4,241 students enrolled across 10 schools.
More than half of the students at Holgate Middle School - 02 are White (76%). Other reported shares: 8% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 5% Native American, and 3% Asian. That compares with about 85% White among all Brown County residents. The diversity index for Holgate Middle School - 02 is 41%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its ratio of 14.5:1 is based on 34.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for middle schools in South Dakota is 13.4:1, so this school has more students per teacher. In all, 31% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Holgate Middle School - 02 holds a B+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 69% of South Dakota public middle schools.
Test results at Holgate Middle School - 02 are within a point of what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (50.9% actual, 50.2% predicted).
In the wider Brown County area, the median household earns about $70,898 a year, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Holgate Middle School - 02 shares Brown County with 21 other public schools.
C C Lee Elementary - 05 is the nearest public school to Holgate Middle School - 02, about 0.3 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 50.9% is above the 46.5% average for nearby schools.
By NCES locale, the school is Town: Remote, or in a town far from an urbanized area.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased from 528 to 497, a 6% decline. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 17.6:1; by 2024-25 it was 14.5:1.
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Brown County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
37,877
Census ACS
Median income
$70,898
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
22
5,354 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Aberdeen School District 06-1
- Central High School - 01High · 1,384 students
- Simmons Middle School - 03Middle · 464 students
- Simmons Elementary - 10Elementary · 386 students
- C C Lee Elementary - 05Elementary · 356 students
- May Overby Elementary - 09Elementary · 327 students
- O M Tiffany Elementary - 11Elementary · 304 students
Other schools in Aberdeen
- Central High School - 01High · 1,384 students
- Simmons Middle School - 03Middle · 464 students
- Simmons Elementary - 10Elementary · 386 students
- C C Lee Elementary - 05Elementary · 356 students
- May Overby Elementary - 09Elementary · 327 students
- O M Tiffany Elementary - 11Elementary · 304 students
Nearby schools
- C C Lee Elementary - 050.3 mi · 356
- O M Tiffany Elementary - 110.9 mi · 304
- New Beginnings - 891.7 mi · 8
- Mike Miller Elementary - 072.0 mi · 282
- Lincoln Elementary - 082.4 mi · 233
- SDSBVI Elementary - 012.5 mi · 10
Frequently asked questions
About Holgate Middle School - 02How many students attend Holgate Middle School - 02?
Holgate Middle School - 02 enrolls approximately 497 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Holgate Middle School - 02 serve?
Holgate Middle School - 02 serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Holgate Middle School - 02?
Approximately 14.5:1 students per teacher at Holgate Middle School - 02.
What is the student diversity at Holgate Middle School - 02?
Student demographics at Holgate Middle School - 02 are roughly 76% White, 6% Hispanic, 1% Black, 3% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Holgate Middle School - 02 in?
Holgate Middle School - 02 is part of Aberdeen School District 06-1.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.