Tri-Valley Intermediate School - 03

Tri-Valley Intermediate School - 03 serves students in Colton, South Dakota, as a high-enrollment middle school. The school offers grades 5 through 8 and enrolls 296 students. Middle schools in South Dakota average about 187 students, which makes this school 58% above average.

Tri-Valley School District 49-6 runs Tri-Valley Intermediate School - 03 along with 3 other schools, enrolling 952 students in total.

Roughly 80% of students at Tri-Valley Intermediate School - 03 are White. Other students are 7% Hispanic, 7% Black, and 5% multiracial. Minnehaha County residents are about 80% White, a similar share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Tri-Valley Intermediate School - 03 scores 35%.

The student-to-teacher ratio is 14.9:1. The school has 19.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. Across middle schools in South Dakota, the average ratio is 13.4:1. Federal data show 23% of students (67) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 42% average for public schools in Minnehaha County, the school's rate is lower.

Tri-Valley Intermediate School - 03 earns a C+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 44% of South Dakota public middle schools.

Tri-Valley Intermediate School - 03's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (47.0%) and its predicted rate (53.8%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of South Dakota schools.

In the wider Minnehaha County area, the median household earns about $76,880 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 35% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Across Minnehaha County, 83 public schools serve about 34,919 students.

Of the public schools around it, Tri-Valley Intermediate School - 03 is closest to Tri-Valley Elementary in Colton - 02, less than a tenth of a mile away. Tri-Valley Intermediate School - 03 has 2 other public schools within five miles. Tri-Valley Intermediate School - 03 ranks 5th of 6 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 47.0% against a local average of 53.2%.

NCES describes the area around Tri-Valley Intermediate School - 03 as Rural: Distant, meaning in rural territory some distance from an urban area.

Reported enrollment: 166 (2020-21) and 296 (2024-25). These figures may describe different sets of grades. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio increased to 14.9:1, from 12.8:1.

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