Lead-Deadwood High School - 01

Located at 320 S Main St, in Lead, South Dakota, Lead-Deadwood High School - 01 is a mid-tier four-year high school that teaches 211 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within Lead-Deadwood School District 40-1.

Lead-Deadwood School District 40-1 runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 647 students. Lead-Deadwood High School - 01 is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lead-Deadwood High School - 01 lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%). Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 4% Native American, 3% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.6:1 average. An estimated 19% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Across the wider county, census data for Lawrence County shows the typical household earns roughly $73,384 per year, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Lead-Deadwood High School - 01 is one of 14 public schools in Lawrence County (combined enrollment of about 3,183 students).

Lead-Deadwood Middle School - 02 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lead-Deadwood High School - 01 has stayed largely flat, going from 212 students in 2018 to 211 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

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