Maurine Elementary - 04

Maurine Elementary - 04 is a rural-scale elementary school in Faith, South Dakota, part of Faith School District 46-2. The school enrolls 17 students in grades K through 8. By comparison, South Dakota's public schools average about 204 students each, so Maurine Elementary - 04 sits 92% smaller than that benchmark.

Faith School District 46-2 comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 181 students; Maurine Elementary - 04 is among them.

Demographically, Maurine Elementary - 04 reports that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 6% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.5:1. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Meade County indicate the typical household earns roughly $74,790 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Meade County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,395 students), Maurine Elementary - 04 is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Opal Elementary - 15, around 11.4 miles off.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Maurine Elementary - 04's enrollment has expanded 13% since 2018, when it stood at 15 (now 17). White enrollment moved from 100% to 94% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 7.5:1 in 2018 to 8.5:1 in 2025.

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