Northwestern Elementary - 04

As an intimate elementary campus in Mellette, South Dakota, Northwestern Elementary - 04 hosts 135 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by Northwestern Area School District 56-7. Compared to the state average of about 204 students per school, that is 34% below typical.

Northwestern Area School District 56-7 runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 387 students. Northwestern Elementary - 04 is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Northwestern Elementary - 04 reports that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Spink County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.1:1. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 19% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Northwestern Elementary - 04 sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.1%; this one delivers 52.8%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Spink County indicate the typical household earns roughly $70,139 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Spink County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,155 students), Northwestern Elementary - 04 is one campus in the mix.

Northwestern High School - 01 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Northwestern Elementary - 04 ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 72.2%.

Northwestern Elementary - 04 operates from an outlying location.

Looking at the recent track record. Northwestern Elementary - 04's enrollment has climbed 9% since 2018, when it stood at 124 (now 135). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 95% to 90%.

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