Enrollment
84
Middle
DISTRICT 87 · STATE 187
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SCOTLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT 04-3·NCES 466518000933
Scotland Middle School - 05
711 4th St, Scotland, SD 57059 · (605) 583-2237 · Bon Homme County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE43-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL84 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 17% of South Dakota public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded South Dakota public middle schools
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
6 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.7:1 · STATE 13.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
42%
35 students
DISTRICT 38% · STATE 42%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 5 | 18 | 21% |
| Grade 6 | 25 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 21 | 25% |
| Grade 8 | 20 | 24% |
Student demographics
11%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 20% · STATE 53% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Scotland Middle School - 05→Scotland High School - 01
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Scotland School District 04-3. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
SD Smarter Balanced 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
41.0%
SD avg 50.3% . +0.5pp since 2022
Math
30.1%
SD avg 47.5% . +1.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all South Dakota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 47. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2022, while math scores are up about 1 points.
SD Smarter Balanced results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.0% | 30.1% |
| 2023-24 | 36.3% | 25.0% |
| 2022-23 | 40.5% | 29.1% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SD Smarter Balanced. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
32.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.0%
based on SD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% typical for South Dakota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among South Dakota's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Scotland Middle School - 05
Scotland Middle School - 05's state test result (32.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland Middle School - 05 this school | 84 | 41.7% | 32.5% |
| Mount Vernon Middle School - 03 Mount Vernon | 58 | 39.7% | 62.5% |
| Burke Middle School - 04 Burke | 62 | 41.9% | 45.1% |
| Willow Lake Middle School - 03 Willow Lake | 54 | 38.9% | 46.0% |
| Waverly-South Shore Middle School - 03 Waverly | 69 | 37.7% | 32.4% |
| Ipswich Middle School - 04 Ipswich | 85 | 35.3% | 66.4% |
Matched among South Dakota middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Scotland Middle School - 05 ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In South Dakota |
|---|---|---|
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 84 | #79 of 165 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
84
+38 (+83%) vs 2020
+18% since 1990-91, when it was 71
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
was 9.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 84 | 6.1 | 13.7:1 | 42% (35) |
| 2023-24 | 83 | 6.3 | 13.2:1 | 40% (33) |
| 2022-23 | 82 | 6.6 | 12.5:1 | 32% (26) |
| 2020-21 | 46 | 5 | 9.2:1 | 28% (13) |
| 2017-18 | 73 | 5.2 | 14.0:1 | 30% (22) |
| 2015-16 | 58 | 5 | 11.6:1 | 31% (18) |
| 2010-11 | 65 | 5 | 13.0:1 | 37% (24) |
| 2000-01 | 59 | 4 | 14.8:1 | 39% (23) |
| 1990-91 | 71 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Scotland Middle School - 05.
Since 2017-18: students up 15% (73 to 84); teachers up 18% (5.2 to 6.1).
About Scotland Middle School - 05
Scotland Middle School - 05 is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as a middle-grades school in Scotland, South Dakota. It serves 84 students in grades 5 through 8. For comparison, middle schools in South Dakota average about 187 students.
Scotland Middle School - 05 is one school in a 3-school district, Scotland School District 04-3, which enrolls 262 students.
The large majority of students at Scotland Middle School - 05, 94%, are White. Other reported shares: 2% Hispanic and 2% Native American. The chance that two students picked at random at Scotland Middle School - 05 belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 11%.
At Scotland Middle School - 05, 6.1 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 13.7:1. Middle schools in South Dakota average about 13.4:1, a similar figure. Roughly 42% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. The 33% average for public schools in Bon Homme County is 9 points lower.
allk12 grades Scotland Middle School - 05 a C-. The grade compares the school only with South Dakota public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
Scotland Middle School - 05 posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 32.5%, compared with a predicted 46.0%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of South Dakota schools on BeatsExpectations.
Among Bon Homme County residents, median household income is about $64,435, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 15 public schools in Bon Homme County, with a combined enrollment of about 1,071.
The next-closest public school is Scotland Elementary - 02, less than a tenth of a mile away. In all, 3 other public schools sit within five miles of Scotland Middle School - 05. Of 5 schools in the immediate area with test results, Scotland Middle School - 05 ranks 4th on average proficiency.
NCES assigns Scotland Middle School - 05 the locale Rural: Remote, meaning in rural territory far from an urban area.
Enrollment records show 46 in 2020-21 and 84 in 2024-25. Because schools sometimes add or drop grades, the two numbers may not be directly comparable. Its ratio of students to teachers was 9.2:1 in 2020-21, and 13.7:1 in 2024-25.
Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Bon Homme County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
7,044
Census ACS
Median income
$64,435
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
15
1,071 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Scotland School District 04-3
- Scotland Elementary - 02Elementary · 114 students
- Scotland High School - 01High · 64 students
Other schools in Scotland
- Scotland Elementary - 02Elementary · 114 students
- Scotland High School - 01High · 64 students
- Maxwell Colony Elementary - 04Elementary · 39 students
- Dawson Colony School - 20Elementary · 34 students
Nearby schools
- Scotland Elementary - 020.0 mi · 114
- Scotland High School - 010.0 mi · 64
- Maxwell Colony Elementary - 044.7 mi · 39
- Menno Elementary - 029.3 mi · 91
- Menno Middle School - 059.3 mi · 37
- Menno High School - 019.3 mi · 74
Frequently asked questions
About Scotland Middle School - 05How large is Scotland Middle School - 05?
Scotland Middle School - 05 enrolls approximately 84 students in grades 05-08.
Is Scotland Middle School - 05 an elementary, middle, or high school?
Scotland Middle School - 05 is a middle school covering grades 05-08.
How many teachers does Scotland Middle School - 05 have?
Scotland Middle School - 05 employs 6 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.7:1.
What is the student diversity at Scotland Middle School - 05?
Student demographics at Scotland Middle School - 05 are roughly 94% White, 2% Hispanic, 1% Asian.
What district is Scotland Middle School - 05 in?
Scotland Middle School - 05 is part of Scotland School District 04-3.
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