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South Dakota schools ranked by test score

Latest SD Smarter Balanced year (2024-25). 214 schools with reported Mathematics scores. State average: 47.5%.
RankSchoolLevelMathematicsvs state
201Summit Elementary - 02
Summit · Summit School District 54-6
Elementary20.8%-26.7pp
202Tripp Elementary - 03
Tripp · Tripp-Delmont School District 33-5
Elementary20.0%-27.5pp
203Garfield Elementary - 19
Sioux Falls · Sioux Falls School District 49-5
Elementary19.8%-27.7pp
204Bennett County Elementary School - 03
Martin · Bennett County School District 03-1
Elementary19.2%-28.3pp
205Knollwood Heights Elementary - 08
Rapid City · Rapid City Area School District 51-4
Elementary18.3%-29.2pp
206Terry Redlin Elementary - 11
Sioux Falls · Sioux Falls School District 49-5
Elementary17.2%-30.3pp
207Robbinsdale Elementary - 14
Rapid City · Rapid City Area School District 51-4
Elementary15.2%-32.3pp
208Hayward Elementary - 38
Sioux Falls · Sioux Falls School District 49-5
Elementary15.0%-32.5pp
209Hawthorne Elementary - 56
Sioux Falls · Sioux Falls School District 49-5
Elementary14.1%-33.4pp
210Horace Mann Elementary - 07
Rapid City · Rapid City Area School District 51-4
Elementary12.8%-34.7pp
211Todd County Elementary - 16
Mission · Todd County School District 66-1
Elementary10.0%-37.5pp
212General Beadle Elementary - 01
Rapid City · Rapid City Area School District 51-4
Elementary8.8%-38.7pp
213Bridges At Horace Mann - 52
Sioux Falls · Sioux Falls School District 49-5
Elementary8.6%-38.9pp
214McLaughlin Elementary - 02
McLaughlin · McLaughlin School District 15-2
Elementary7.4%-40.1pp
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About this ranking

Schools are ranked by the percentage of students who scored at or above the SD Smarter Balanced % Proficient threshold on the latest available SD Smarter Balanced Mathematics test (school year 2024-25). A higher percentage is better.

Only public schools with a reasonable cohort size are included (at least 50 total students enrolled, since the source file does not include per-subject student counts), so very small programs and special-purpose centers are filtered out.

The state average shown above is enrollment-weighted: we multiply each school's score by how many of its students tested, sum those across every public school in South Dakota, and divide by the total students tested. This way a big school counts more than a tiny one in the typical-student average.