Todd County Elementary - 16

Located at 27011 US Highway 83, in Mission, South Dakota, Todd County Elementary - 16 is a sprawling primary school that hosts 511 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Todd County School District 66-1. By comparison, South Dakota's public schools average about 204 students each, so Todd County Elementary - 16 sits 150% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 11 schools in Todd County School District 66-1 (1,980 students total), Todd County Elementary - 16 accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Todd County Elementary - 16 shows that nearly all students (92%) are Native American; the rest looks like 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Todd County Elementary - 16 has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at Todd County Elementary - 16 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Todd County Elementary - 16 sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.1%; this one delivers 11.4%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Todd County indicate median household income runs about $42,075, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 42%. In all, Todd County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,610 students), of which Todd County Elementary - 16 is one.

Todd County Middle School - 10 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Todd County Elementary - 16.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Todd County Elementary - 16's enrollment has shrank 6% since 2018, when it stood at 545 (now 511). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 today.

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