May Overby Elementary - 09

May Overby Elementary - 09, a well-populated elementary-level community in Aberdeen, South Dakota, run under Aberdeen School District 06-1, serves 327 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, South Dakota's public schools average about 204 students each, so May Overby Elementary - 09 sits 60% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Aberdeen School District 06-1, which oversees 10 schools and 4,241 students, May Overby Elementary - 09 is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, May Overby Elementary - 09 records that the largest single group is White, at 60% of enrollment; the rest looks like 13% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 7% Native American, 6% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 85%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting May Overby Elementary - 09 tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Brown County's rate of about 35%.

With demographic context factored in, May Overby Elementary - 09 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.1%, the actual is 39.7%, a residual of -1.4 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Brown County put the typical household earns roughly $70,898 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Brown County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,354 students), May Overby Elementary - 09 is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SDSBVI High School - 02, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts May Overby Elementary - 09 at 3rd of 5; the average score across the group is 40.1%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. May Overby Elementary - 09's enrollment has ticked down 16% since 2018, when it stood at 389 (now 327). White enrollment moved from 72% to 60% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 today.

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