Parkston Middle School - 05

Set in Parkston, South Dakota, Parkston Middle School - 05 is a cozy middle-grades school, one of the schools within Parkston School District 33-3. It works with 98 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 48% smaller than the state mean of about 187.

Parkston School District 33-3 runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 561 students. Parkston Middle School - 05 is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Parkston Middle School - 05 logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). The remainder breaks down as 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. Compared to Hutchinson County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 23% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Hutchinson County's rate of about 38%.

With demographic context factored in, Parkston Middle School - 05 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.4%, the actual is 50.5%, a residual of -2.9 points.

In the area at large, census data for Hutchinson County shows the typical household earns roughly $73,977 per year, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Hutchinson County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,376 students), Parkston Middle School - 05 is one campus in the mix.

Parkston Elementary - 02 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Parkston Middle School - 05 comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 60.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 27%: 77 students in 2018 compared to 98 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 97% to 91% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.