Kimball Elementary - 02

Kimball Elementary - 02 is a K-5 school of intimate scale in Kimball, South Dakota, part of Kimball School District 07-2, works with 102 students in grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 50% smaller than the state mean of about 204.

Kimball School District 07-2 runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 347 students. Kimball Elementary - 02 is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Kimball Elementary - 02 reports that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 6% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.3:1. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 28% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Brule County's rate of about 45%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Kimball Elementary - 02 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.4%, the actual is 55.2%, a residual of +3.9 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Brule County put the typical household earns roughly $73,720 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Brule County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,249 students), of which Kimball Elementary - 02 is one.

Nearest neighbor: Kimball High School - 01, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Kimball Elementary - 02. On composite proficiency, Kimball Elementary - 02 comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 45.1%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 14%: 119 students in 2018 compared to 102 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 in 2025.

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