Spring Lake Colony Elementary

Spring Lake Colony Elementary is a primary school of micro-enrollment scale in Arlington, South Dakota, run under Oldham-Ramona-Rutland School District 39-6, enrolling 18 students in grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 91% smaller than the state mean of about 204.

Oldham-Ramona-Rutland School District 39-6 comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 288 students; Spring Lake Colony Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Spring Lake Colony Elementary shows that 100% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 92%.

On the income-and-resources front, Spring Lake Colony Elementary records 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 7.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.4:1 average.

Around the school, census data for Kingsbury County shows median household income runs about $74,000, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Kingsbury County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,061 students), of which Spring Lake Colony Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Spring Lake Colony High School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The school occupies a rural site.

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