Kimball Middle School - 04

Kimball Middle School - 04 is a 6-8 campus of close-knit scale in Kimball, South Dakota, run under Kimball School District 07-2, instructing 92 students in grades 5 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 51% smaller than the state mean of about 187.

Within Kimball School District 07-2, which oversees 5 schools and 347 students, Kimball Middle School - 04 is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Kimball Middle School - 04 reports that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 7% multiracial, 3% Native American, 2% Hispanic.

Looking at school resources, Kimball Middle School - 04 shows 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.4:1 average. An estimated 28% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Brule County (around 45%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Kimball Middle School - 04 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.4%, the actual is 49.4%, a residual of -2.0 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Brule County indicate the typical household earns roughly $73,720 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Kimball Middle School - 04 is one of 9 public schools in Brule County (combined enrollment of about 1,249 students).

Kimball 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 Kimball Middle School - 04. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Kimball Middle School - 04 at 3rd of 5; the average score across the group is 46.6%.

Kimball Middle School - 04 operates from a rural location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Kimball Middle School - 04's enrollment has increased 18% since 2018, when it stood at 78 (now 92). Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.

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