Lemmon High School - 01

Set in Lemmon, South Dakota, Lemmon High School - 01 is a small secondary school, run under Lemmon School District 52-4. It works with 97 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, South Dakota's public schools average about 225 students each, so Lemmon High School - 01 sits 57% below that benchmark.

Lemmon School District 52-4 comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 289 students; Lemmon High School - 01 is among them.

On the student-mix side, Lemmon High School - 01 reports that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.6:1, putting Lemmon High School - 01 tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 33% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Perkins County put median household earnings sit near $66,908, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Perkins County runs 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424 students), of which Lemmon High School - 01 is one.

The closest other public school is Lemmon Jr. High - 06, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Lemmon High School - 01's enrollment has edged up 33% since 2018, when it stood at 73 (now 97). Over the same period, the White share declined from 96% to 91%. Class-load math has grew: from 9.6:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 in 2025.

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