Lennox Elementary - 02

Lennox Elementary - 02, a heavily attended elementary campus in Lennox, South Dakota, operated by Lennox School District 41-4, enrolls 362 students, covering grades pre-K through 4. That puts it 77% larger than the typical public school in South Dakota, which averages around 204 students.

Across the 5 schools in Lennox School District 41-4 (1,192 students total), Lennox Elementary - 02 accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Lennox Elementary - 02 lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%). Beyond that, the school shows 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 2% Native American. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. Roughly 20% of students at Lennox Elementary - 02 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Lennox 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 54.6%; Lennox Elementary - 02 posts 71.2%, +16.6 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Lincoln County shows the typical household earns roughly $99,166 per year, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Lennox Elementary - 02 is one of 26 public schools in Lincoln County (combined enrollment of about 10,530 students).

Lennox Intermediate - 09 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lennox Elementary - 02 at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 62.9%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lennox Elementary - 02 has fell 14%, going from 419 students in 2018 to 362 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 93% to 88%. Class-load math has fell: from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 in 2025.

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