Medary Elementary - 05

Medary Elementary - 05 is a primary school of high-enrollment scale in Brookings, South Dakota, part of Brookings School District 05-1, educateing 358 students in grades pre-K through 3. By comparison, South Dakota's public schools average about 204 students each, so Medary Elementary - 05 sits 75% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 8 schools in Brookings School District 05-1 (3,546 students total), Medary Elementary - 05 accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Medary Elementary - 05 logs that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 22% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 4% Native American, 3% Asian. By comparison, Brookings County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Medary Elementary - 05 records 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. About 27% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Medary Elementary - 05 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.9%, the actual is 55.3%, a residual of +3.4 points.

In the surrounding community, Brookings County reports that the typical household earns roughly $70,064 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Brookings County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,921 students), Medary Elementary - 05 is one campus in the mix.

Brookings High School - 01 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Medary Elementary - 05. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Medary Elementary - 05 ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 48.1%.

Medary Elementary - 05 operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Medary Elementary - 05's enrollment has decreased 3% since 2018, when it stood at 370 (now 358). Hispanic enrollment moved from 8% to 22% across the same window.

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