Rock Creek Grant School

Set in Bullhead, South Dakota, Rock Creek Grant School is a micro-enrollment K-5 school, operated by Rock Creek Grant School. It instructs 50 students across grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 75% below the state mean of about 204.

Rock Creek Grant School is the operating authority for Rock Creek Grant School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On the student-mix side, Rock Creek Grant School records that the student body is overwhelmingly Native American (100%).

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. Roughly 94% of students at Rock Creek Grant School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Corson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $46,406 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 34%. In all, Corson County runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 858 students), of which Rock Creek Grant School is one.

McLaughlin High School - 01 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 13.5 miles from this campus.

The school occupies a rural site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 37%: 79 students in 2018 compared to 50 in 2025.

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