Rolland Colony Elementary - 05

Set in White, South Dakota, Rolland Colony Elementary - 05 is a rural-scale K-5 school, one of the schools within Elkton School District 05-3. It educates 9 students across grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 96% leaner than the state mean of about 204.

Rolland Colony Elementary - 05 is one of 5 schools operated by Elkton School District 05-3, a district that educates 429 students overall.

Demographically, Rolland Colony Elementary - 05 logs that nearly all students (100%) are White. By comparison, Brookings County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Rolland Colony Elementary - 05 has 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.0:1. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

In the area at large, census data for Brookings County shows the typical household earns roughly $70,064 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Brookings County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,921 students), Rolland Colony Elementary - 05 is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Newdale Colony Elementary - 04, around 4.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rolland Colony Elementary - 05 has decreased 31%, going from 13 students in 2018 to 9 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 in 2025.

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