Spink Colony Elementary - 03

Spink Colony Elementary - 03 operates as a micro-enrollment elementary-level community in Frankfort, South Dakota, one of the schools within Hitchcock Tulare School District 56-6. Current enrollment sits at 21 students spanning grades K through 8. By comparison, South Dakota's public schools average about 204 students each, so Spink Colony Elementary - 03 sits 90% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Hitchcock Tulare School District 56-6, which oversees 5 schools and 236 students, Spink Colony Elementary - 03 is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Spink Colony Elementary - 03 shows that 100% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority.

On the resource side, On paper, Spink Colony Elementary - 03 has 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting Spink Colony Elementary - 03 tighter than the state norm the norm.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Spink County put the typical household earns roughly $70,139 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Spink County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,155 students), of which Spink Colony Elementary - 03 is one.

Glendale Colony Elementary - 04 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.7 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 25%: 28 students in 2018 compared to 21 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 8.1:1 in 2025.

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