Milesville Elementary - 08

Milesville Elementary - 08 is a primary school of tiny scale in Milesville, South Dakota, one of the schools within Haakon School District 27-1, serveing 15 students in grades K through 8. By comparison, South Dakota's public schools average about 204 students each, so Milesville Elementary - 08 sits 93% smaller than that benchmark.

Haakon School District 27-1 comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 326 students; Milesville Elementary - 08 is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Milesville Elementary - 08 logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%); the rest reads as 13% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Milesville Elementary - 08 has 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.0:1. The state averages about 15.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers.

In the area at large, Haakon County reports that median household income runs about $65,625, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Haakon County runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 332 students), of which Milesville Elementary - 08 is one.

Nearest neighbor: Takini School, around 12.7 miles off.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Milesville Elementary - 08's enrollment has climbed 50% since 2018, when it stood at 10 (now 15). White enrollment moved from 100% to 87% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 9.1:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.