Stewart Elementary - 05

Stewart Elementary - 05 operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Yankton, South Dakota, one of the schools within Yankton School District 63-3. Current enrollment sits at 271 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 33% larger than the typical public school in South Dakota, which averages around 204 students.

Yankton School District 63-3 runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,021 students. Stewart Elementary - 05 is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Stewart Elementary - 05 reports that the largest single group is White, at 77% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 13% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Native American. By comparison, Yankton County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting Stewart Elementary - 05 tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 38% of students at Stewart Elementary - 05 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Stewart Elementary - 05 tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 47.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 45.6%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Yankton County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $72,821 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Stewart Elementary - 05 is one of 11 public schools in Yankton County (combined enrollment of about 3,321 students).

The closest other public school is Yankton Middle School - 02, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Stewart Elementary - 05. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Stewart Elementary - 05 at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 43.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Stewart Elementary - 05's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 273 (now 271). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 84% to 77%.

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