Tripp-Delmont Jr. High - 02

Tripp-Delmont Jr. High - 02, a very small junior high in Tripp, South Dakota, one of the schools within Tripp-Delmont School District 33-5, hosts 18 students, covering grades 7 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 187 students per school, that is 90% below typical.

Tripp-Delmont School District 33-5 comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 168 students; Tripp-Delmont Jr. High - 02 is among them.

In terms of who attends, Tripp-Delmont Jr. High - 02 records that 100% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. By comparison, Hutchinson County as a whole is about 91% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Tripp-Delmont Jr. High - 02 reports 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.4:1. The state averages around 13.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 61% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Hutchinson County (around 38%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Tripp-Delmont Jr. High - 02 sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.0%; this one delivers 28.4%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Hutchinson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $73,977 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Hutchinson County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,376 students), of which Tripp-Delmont Jr. High - 02 is one.

The closest other public school is Tripp Elementary - 03, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Tripp-Delmont Jr. High - 02. On composite proficiency, Tripp-Delmont Jr. High - 02 comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.6%.

Tripp-Delmont Jr. High - 02 operates from a countryside location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Tripp-Delmont Jr. High - 02's enrollment has edged down 18% since 2018, when it stood at 22 (now 18). Over the same period, the White share ticked up from 91% to 100%.

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