Oldham-Ramona-Rutland Elementary

Set in Rutland, South Dakota, Oldham-Ramona-Rutland Elementary is an intimate primary school, part of Oldham-Ramona-Rutland School District 39-6. It serves 116 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 43% leaner than the typical public school in South Dakota, which averages around 204 students.

Oldham-Ramona-Rutland School District 39-6 comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 288 students; Oldham-Ramona-Rutland Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Oldham-Ramona-Rutland Elementary records that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 9% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Lake County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.1:1. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 22% of students at Oldham-Ramona-Rutland Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Oldham-Ramona-Rutland Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.2%, the actual is 40.1%, a residual of -14.0 points.

Around the school, census data for Lake County shows the typical household earns roughly $76,808 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Lake County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,009 students), of which Oldham-Ramona-Rutland Elementary is one.

Oldham-Ramona-Rutland High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Oldham-Ramona-Rutland Elementary at 3rd of 5; the average score across the group is 40.8%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.