Lake Preston Elementary - 02

Set in Lake Preston, South Dakota, Lake Preston Elementary - 02 is a cozy elementary school, part of Lake Preston School District 38-3. It educates 96 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 53% below the state mean of about 204.

Lake Preston School District 38-3 comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 170 students; Lake Preston Elementary - 02 is among them.

On demographics, Lake Preston Elementary - 02 logs that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% multiracial, 2% Native American. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. Roughly 39% of students at Lake Preston Elementary - 02 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Kingsbury County's rate of about 29%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lake Preston Elementary - 02 ranks in the top 10% of South Dakota public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 47.2%; Lake Preston Elementary - 02 posts 69.7%, +22.4 points above that line.

Around the school, census data for Kingsbury County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,000 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Kingsbury County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,061 students), of which Lake Preston Elementary - 02 is one.

Lake Preston High School - 01 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lake Preston Elementary - 02 at 1st of 5; the average score across the group is 59.3%.

Lake Preston Elementary - 02 operates from a countryside location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 5%: 91 students in 2018 compared to 96 in 2025.

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