Lead-Deadwood Career & Technical Education - 10

Lead-Deadwood Career & Technical Education - 10 is a minimally staffed four-year high school in Nemo, South Dakota, one of the schools within Lead-Deadwood School District 40-1. The school works with 54 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 76% smaller than the state mean of about 225.

Lead-Deadwood School District 40-1 runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 647 students. Lead-Deadwood Career & Technical Education - 10 is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Lead-Deadwood Career & Technical Education - 10 logs that Native American students make up the majority at 56%. Beyond that, the school records 39% White, 4% Black.

On the resource side, Lead-Deadwood Career & Technical Education - 10 logs 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.6:1 average. Roughly 94% of students at Lead-Deadwood Career & Technical Education - 10 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Lawrence County runs at roughly 22%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Lawrence County) records that median household earnings sit near $73,384, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Lawrence County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,183 students), Lead-Deadwood Career & Technical Education - 10 is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Piedmont Valley Elementary - 05, roughly 7.9 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Lead-Deadwood Career & Technical Education - 10's enrollment has edged down 53% since 2018, when it stood at 115 (now 54). Black enrollment moved from 29% to 4% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 7.0:1 in 2018 to 8.4:1 today.

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