Lemmon Elementary - 02

Lemmon Elementary - 02 is a compact K-5 school in Lemmon, South Dakota, operated by Lemmon School District 52-4. The school instructs 139 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 204 students per school, that is 32% leaner than typical.

Across the 3 schools in Lemmon School District 52-4 (289 students total), Lemmon Elementary - 02 accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Lemmon Elementary - 02 records that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 4% Native American, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Perkins County's rate of about 36%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lemmon Elementary - 02 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.3%, the actual is 56.2%, a residual of +13.0 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Perkins County) reports that median household earnings sit near $66,908, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Perkins County's 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424 students), Lemmon Elementary - 02 is one campus in the mix.

Lemmon High School - 01 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Lemmon Elementary - 02.

Lemmon Elementary - 02 operates from an outlying location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lemmon Elementary - 02 has edged down 8%, going from 151 students in 2018 to 139 in 2025.

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