Sully Buttes Middle School - 06

Sully Buttes Middle School - 06 operates as a rural-scale intermediate school in Onida, South Dakota, one of the schools within Agar-Blunt-Onida School District 58-3. Current enrollment sits at 66 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 65% below the state mean of about 187.

Sully Buttes Middle School - 06 is one of 4 schools operated by Agar-Blunt-Onida School District 58-3, a district that caters to 230 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Sully Buttes Middle School - 06 lists that nearly all students (82%) are White. Beyond that, the school records 8% multiracial, 6% Native American, 3% Hispanic.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Sully Buttes Middle School - 06 has 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.1:1. The state averages around 13.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 29% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sully Buttes Middle School - 06 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.2%, the actual is 57.7%, a residual of +6.5 points.

In the surrounding community, Sully County reports that the typical household earns roughly $72,578 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Sully County runs 3 public schools (combined enrollment of about 216 students), of which Sully Buttes Middle School - 06 is one.

Onida Elementary - 04 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sully Buttes Middle School - 06 ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 58.0%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sully Buttes Middle School - 06 has edged up 69%, going from 39 students in 2018 to 66 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 87% to 82%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 9.1:1 today.

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