Marion Middle School - 03

As a very small junior high in Marion, South Dakota, Marion Middle School - 03 hosts 46 students from grades 6 through 8, run under Marion School District 60-3. By comparison, South Dakota's public schools average about 187 students each, so Marion Middle School - 03 sits 75% smaller than that benchmark.

Marion School District 60-3 comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 208 students; Marion Middle School - 03 is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Marion Middle School - 03 logs that nearly all students (83%) are White. Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 93% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 52% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Turner County (around 27%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Marion Middle School - 03 tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.8%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Turner County indicate the typical household earns roughly $75,771 per year, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Turner County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,459 students), of which Marion Middle School - 03 is one.

Marion Elementary - 02 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Marion Middle School - 03. On composite proficiency, Marion Middle School - 03 comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.4%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Marion Middle School - 03 has expanded 64%, going from 28 students in 2018 to 46 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 89% to 83%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 5.2:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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