Millerdale Colony Elementary - 11
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SD Smarter Balanced 2023-24 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 20 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level. The South Dakota average is about 50 of 100. Reading and writing scores are up about 8 points since 2022.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Millerdale Colony Elementary - 11
Millerdale Colony Elementary - 11 is a K-5 school of rural-scale scale in Miller, South Dakota, part of Miller School District 29-4, educateing 37 students in grades K through 8. By comparison, South Dakota's public schools average about 204 students each, so Millerdale Colony Elementary - 11 sits 82% smaller than that benchmark.
Millerdale Colony Elementary - 11 is one of 4 schools operated by Miller School District 29-4, a district that educates 483 students overall.
In terms of who attends, Millerdale Colony Elementary - 11 lists that 100% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 37.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.4:1 average.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Hand County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $74,635 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 1%. Millerdale Colony Elementary - 11 is one of 5 public schools in Hand County (combined enrollment of about 483 students).
Miller High School - 01 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 10.6 miles from this campus.
Millerdale Colony Elementary - 11 operates from an outlying location.
Over the past 7-year window. Millerdale Colony Elementary - 11's enrollment has rose 118% since 2018, when it stood at 17 (now 37). Class-load math has rose: from 7.0:1 in 2018 to 37.0:1 in 2025.
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