North Park Elementary - 08

North Park Elementary - 08 is one of the close-knit elementary-level communitys in Belle Fourche, South Dakota, overseen by Belle Fourche School District 09-1, with 89 students on its rolls from grade K. By comparison, South Dakota's public schools average about 204 students each, so North Park Elementary - 08 sits 56% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Belle Fourche School District 09-1, which oversees 5 schools and 1,274 students, North Park Elementary - 08 is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, North Park Elementary - 08 reports that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 8% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Butte County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, North Park Elementary - 08 has 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. Roughly 45% of students at North Park Elementary - 08 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, North Park Elementary - 08 tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.3%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Butte County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $75,652 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. North Park Elementary - 08 is one of 8 public schools in Butte County (combined enrollment of about 1,504 students).

Belle Fourche High School - 01 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around North Park Elementary - 08. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), North Park Elementary - 08 ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 48.8%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. North Park Elementary - 08's enrollment has ticked down 21% since 2018, when it stood at 113 (now 89). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 3% to 8%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.