Enrollment
231
Elementary
DISTRICT 134 · STATE 204
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MILLER SCHOOL DISTRICT 29-4·NCES 464794200429
Miller Elementary - 02
623 E 4th St, Miller, SD 57362 · (605) 853-2711 · Hand County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY43-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL231 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 88% of South Dakota public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded South Dakota public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.9:1 · STATE 15.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
52 students
DISTRICT 21% · STATE 42%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 47 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 29 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 36 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 26 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 25 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 36 | 16% |
| Grade 6 | 32 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (47) is 47% larger than its 6th grade class (32).
Student demographics
15%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 13% · STATE 53% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Miller School District 29-4. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
SD Smarter Balanced 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
64.9%
SD avg 50.3% . -6.7pp since 2022
Math
65.8%
SD avg 47.5% . -1.4pp since 2022
What this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all South Dakota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 47. Reading and writing scores are down about 7 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 1 points.
SD Smarter Balanced results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 64.9% | 65.8% |
| 2023-24 | 73.2% | 68.5% |
| 2022-23 | 71.6% | 67.2% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SD Smarter Balanced. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
65.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.8%
based on SD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% typical for South Dakota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among South Dakota's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Miller Elementary - 02
Miller Elementary - 02's state test result (65.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miller Elementary - 02 this school | 231 | 22.5% | 65.0% |
| Lead-Deadwood Elementary - 03 Deadwood | 243 | 21.4% | 41.1% |
| Parker Elementary - 02 Parker | 238 | 19.7% | 48.3% |
| Clear Lake Elementary - 02 Clear Lake | 270 | 21.9% | 45.9% |
| Platte - Geddes Elementary - 02 Platte | 230 | 23.5% | 62.8% |
| McCook Central Elementary - 02 Salem | 225 | 25.3% | 41.9% |
Matched among South Dakota elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Miller Elementary - 02 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In South Dakota |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.0% | #21 of 193 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 65.8% | #44 of 199 ▼ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 64.9% | #30 of 202 ▼ 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 231 | #122 of 331 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.8:1 | #11 of 131 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 14.7% | #120 of 131 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.5% | #165 of 209 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.1% | #23 of 87 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
231
+16 (+7%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 301
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 9.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 231 | 21.4 | 10.8:1 | 23% (52) |
| 2023-24 | 234 | 21.4 | 10.9:1 | 22% (52) |
| 2022-23 | 233 | 19.9 | 11.7:1 | 19% (45) |
| 2020-21 | 215 | 22 | 9.8:1 | 20% (43) |
| 2017-18 | 282 | 22.5 | 12.6:1 | 24% (68) |
| 2015-16 | 268 | 22 | 12.2:1 | 32% (85) |
| 2010-11 | 211 | 22 | 9.6:1 | 36% (77) |
| 2000-01 | 257 | 21 | 12.2:1 | 36% (92) |
| 1990-91 | 301 | 25 | 12.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Miller Elementary - 02.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (282 to 231); teachers down 5% (22.5 to 21.4).
About Miller Elementary - 02
In Miller, South Dakota, part of Hand County, Miller Elementary - 02 is an elementary school. School enrollment was 231 students in 2024-25, in kindergarten through 6.
The Miller School District 29-4 system has 4 schools and 483 students.
About 92% of the student body at Miller Elementary - 02 is White. Other reported shares: 6% Hispanic. The White share in Hand County as a whole is similar, at about 92%. Pick two students at random and there is a 15% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
With 21.4 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at Miller Elementary - 02 was 10.8:1. This ratio sits 4.6 below the 15.4:1 average for elementary schools in South Dakota. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 23%.
Miller Elementary - 02 is graded A by allk12, scoring above 88% of South Dakota public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Miller Elementary - 02 is 11.2 points above the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 65.0% actual, 53.8% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in South Dakota.
In the county around the school, Hand County, the median household income is $74,635, about 28% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 1% of residents are in poverty. Hand County is home to 5 public schools and about 483 public school students.
Miller Jr. High - 04 is located less than a tenth of a mile from Miller Elementary - 02. The five-mile area around Miller Elementary - 02 holds 2 other public schools. Among 5 nearby schools that report test results, Miller Elementary - 02 ranks 1st on proficiency.
Miller Elementary - 02 has an NCES locale of Rural: Remote.
2024-25 enrollment was 231, a 7% rise from 215 in 2020-21. Its ratio of students to teachers was 9.8:1 in 2020-21, and 10.8:1 in 2024-25.
Conversations here can range across school safety, transportation, and start times. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Hand County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
3,140
Census ACS
Median income
$74,635
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
1%
Below federal line
Schools in county
5
483 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Miller School District 29-4
- Miller High School - 01High · 141 students
- Miller Jr. High - 04Middle · 74 students
- Millerdale Colony Elementary - 11Elementary · 37 students
- Miller Skillbuilders PK - 05Elementary
Other schools in Miller
- Miller High School - 01High · 141 students
- Miller Jr. High - 04Middle · 74 students
- Millerdale Colony Elementary - 11Elementary · 37 students
- Miller Skillbuilders PK - 05Elementary
Other Miller Elementary schools
16 other US public schools in 12 states are named Miller Elementary. Miller Elementary - 02 is the 16th largest of the 17.
- Miller ElemDodge City, KS · 780 students
- Miller Elementary SchoolLUBBOCK, TX · 675 students
- Miller ElementarySan Diego, CA · 611 students
- Miller Elementary SchoolDEARBORN, MI · 575 students
- Miller Elementary SchoolLITTLE ELM, TX · 573 students
Nearby schools
- Miller Jr. High - 040.0 mi · 74
- Miller High School - 010.0 mi · 141
- Millerdale Colony Elementary - 1110.6 mi · 37
- Highmore Jr. High - 0322.8 mi · 34
- Highmore High School - 0122.8 mi · 62
- Highmore Elementary - 0222.8 mi · 133
Frequently asked questions
About Miller Elementary - 02How large is Miller Elementary - 02?
Miller Elementary - 02 enrolls approximately 231 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does Miller Elementary - 02 serve?
Miller Elementary - 02 serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at Miller Elementary - 02?
Approximately 10.8:1 students per teacher at Miller Elementary - 02.
How diverse is Miller Elementary - 02?
Miller Elementary - 02 reports a student body of 92% White, 6% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian.
Who oversees Miller Elementary - 02?
Miller Elementary - 02 is overseen by Miller School District 29-4 in Hand County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.