Sunset Colony Elementary - 04

Sunset Colony Elementary - 04 operates as a minimally staffed elementary campus in Britton, South Dakota, run under Britton-Hecla School District 45-4. Current enrollment sits at 32 students spanning grades K through 8. By comparison, South Dakota's public schools average about 204 students each, so Sunset Colony Elementary - 04 sits 84% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 6 schools in Britton-Hecla School District 45-4 (468 students total), Sunset Colony Elementary - 04 accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Sunset Colony Elementary - 04 records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (100%). By comparison, Marshall County as a whole is about 85% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Sunset Colony Elementary - 04 lists 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.9:1. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Marshall County runs at roughly 31%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Sunset Colony Elementary - 04 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.9%, the actual is 33.2%, a residual of +7.3 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Marshall County) logs that median household earnings sit near $78,156, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 2%. Sunset Colony Elementary - 04 is one of 13 public schools in Marshall County (combined enrollment of about 726 students).

Sunset Colony High School - 06 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sunset Colony Elementary - 04 ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 39.2%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Sunset Colony Elementary - 04's enrollment has expanded 45% since 2018, when it stood at 22 (now 32). The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 10.5:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 today.

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