Tea Area High School - 03

Located at 500 W Brian St, in Tea, South Dakota, Tea Area High School - 03 is a high-enrollment high school that instructs 717 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by Tea Area School District 41-5. Enrollment runs roughly 219% above the state mean of about 225.

Tea Area School District 41-5 comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,509 students; Tea Area High School - 03 is among them.

In terms of who attends, Tea Area High School - 03 shows that nearly all students (86%) are White; the rest looks like 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. Compared to Lincoln County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.6:1 average. Around 16% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Lincoln County indicate the typical household earns roughly $99,166 per year, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Lincoln County runs 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,530 students), of which Tea Area High School - 03 is one.

Nearest neighbor: Tea Area Middle School - 02, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Tea Area High School - 03.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Tea Area High School - 03 has rose 66%, going from 431 students in 2018 to 717 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 90% to 86% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 today.

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