Irene - Wakonda Jr. High - 04

As a tiny 6-8 campus in Irene, South Dakota, Irene - Wakonda Jr. High - 04 enrolls 46 students from grades 7 through 8, one of the schools within Irene - Wakonda School District 13-3. Enrollment runs roughly 75% below the state mean of about 187.

Irene - Wakonda Jr. High - 04 is one of 3 schools operated by Irene - Wakonda School District 13-3, a district that hosts 293 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Irene - Wakonda Jr. High - 04 shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). The remainder is composed of 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Native American.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 26% of students at Irene - Wakonda Jr. High - 04 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Irene - Wakonda Jr. High - 04 sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.3%; this one delivers 48.8%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Turner County indicate median household income runs about $75,771, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Turner County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,459 students), of which Irene - Wakonda Jr. High - 04 is one.

The closest other public school is Irene - Wakonda High School - 01, roughly 0.0 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Irene - Wakonda Jr. High - 04 comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.9%.

Irene - Wakonda Jr. High - 04 operates from a rural location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Irene - Wakonda Jr. High - 04's enrollment has declined 4% since 2018, when it stood at 48 (now 46). White enrollment moved from 98% to 89% across the same window.

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