Enrollment
114
Middle
DISTRICT 101 · STATE 187
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VIBORG-HURLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT 60-6·NCES 467452000961
Viborg-Hurley Middle School - 03
501 Adams St, Hurley, SD 57036 · (605) 766-5418 · Turner County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE42-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL114 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 34% of South Dakota public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded South Dakota public middle schools
Student : Teacher
12.0:1
9 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 13.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
34%
39 students
DISTRICT 31% · STATE 42%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 5 | 24 | 21% |
| Grade 6 | 32 | 28% |
| Grade 7 | 22 | 19% |
| Grade 8 | 36 | 32% |
Student demographics
24%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 22% · STATE 53% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Viborg-Hurley Middle School - 03→Viborg-Hurley High School - 01
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SD Smarter Balanced 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
58.3%
SD avg 50.3% . +7.9pp since 2022
Math
47.2%
SD avg 47.5% . +16.7pp since 2022
What this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all South Dakota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 47. Reading and writing scores are up about 8 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 17 points.
SD Smarter Balanced results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 58.3% | 47.2% |
| 2023-24 | 37.8% | 32.4% |
| 2022-23 | 50.4% | 30.5% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SD Smarter Balanced. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
42.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.0%
based on SD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% typical for South Dakota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among South Dakota's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Viborg-Hurley Middle School - 03
Viborg-Hurley Middle School - 03's state test result (42.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Viborg-Hurley Middle School - 03 this school | 114 | 34.2% | 42.9% |
| Wolsey Wessington Middle School - 03 Wolsey | 75 | 32.0% | 32.3% |
| Parker Jr. High - 03 Parker | 74 | 31.1% | 36.1% |
| Elkton Jr. High - 03 Elkton | 65 | 33.8% | 26.3% |
| Hamlin Middle School - 02 Hayti | 198 | 30.3% | 48.3% |
| Custer Jr. High - 05 Custer | 101 | 27.7% | 60.7% |
Matched among South Dakota middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Viborg-Hurley Middle School - 03 ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In South Dakota |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.9% | #46 of 64 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.2% | #30 of 64 ▲ 20 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.3% | #26 of 65 ▲ 30 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 114 | #56 of 165 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 34.2% | #26 of 65 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
114
+13 (+13%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
12.0:1
was 14.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 114 | 9.5 | 12.0:1 | 34% (39) |
| 2023-24 | 113 | 8.4 | 13.4:1 | 33% (37) |
| 2022-23 | 125 | 8.4 | 14.8:1 | 24% (30) |
| 2020-21 | 101 | 7 | 14.4:1 | 29% (29) |
| 2017-18 | 86 | 6.6 | 12.9:1 | 40% (34) |
| 2015-16 | 86 | 7 | 12.3:1 | 23% (20) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Viborg-Hurley Middle School - 03.
Since 2017-18: students up 33% (86 to 114); teachers up 43% (6.6 to 9.5).
About Viborg-Hurley Middle School - 03
Students in Hurley, South Dakota, attend Viborg-Hurley Middle School - 03, a low-enrollment middle school. Grades offered run from 5 through 8, with 114 students enrolled. For comparison, middle schools in South Dakota average about 187 students.
Viborg-Hurley School District 60-6 has 403 students in 4 schools, and Viborg-Hurley Middle School - 03 is one of those schools.
About 87% of the student body at Viborg-Hurley Middle School - 03 is White. Other students are 7% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. Pick two students at random and there is a 24% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teachers at Viborg-Hurley Middle School - 03 total 9.5 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 12.0:1. That is 1.4 students per teacher below the 13.4:1 average for middle schools in South Dakota. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 34%.
allk12 grades Viborg-Hurley Middle School - 03 a C. The grade compares the school only with South Dakota public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
Viborg-Hurley Middle School - 03's actual average proficiency rate on state tests (42.9%) and its predicted rate (49.0%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of South Dakota schools.
According to the American Community Survey, in Turner County, the median household income is $75,771, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Viborg-Hurley Middle School - 03 is one of 15 public schools in the county.
Viborg-Hurley High School - 01 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 7.8 miles away. The ten-mile area around Viborg-Hurley Middle School - 03 holds 5 other public schools. Viborg-Hurley Middle School - 03's average proficiency of 42.9% compares with 52.9% for its nearest scored neighbors.
NCES describes the area around Viborg-Hurley Middle School - 03 as Rural: Distant, meaning in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
Enrollment is up 13% from 2020-21, when Viborg-Hurley Middle School - 03 had 101 students, to 2024-25, when it had 114. Its ratio of students to teachers was 14.4:1 in 2020-21, and 12.0:1 in 2024-25.
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Turner County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
8,882
Census ACS
Median income
$75,771
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
15
1,459 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Viborg-Hurley School District 60-6
- Viborg-Hurley Elementary - 02Elementary · 153 students
- Viborg-Hurley High School - 01High · 124 students
- Cameron Colony Elementary - 04Elementary · 12 students
Nearby schools
- Viborg-Hurley High School - 017.8 mi · 124
- Viborg-Hurley Elementary - 027.8 mi · 153
- Parker Elementary - 028.3 mi · 238
- Parker High School - 018.3 mi · 141
- Parker Jr. High - 038.3 mi · 74
- Cameron Colony Elementary - 0410.7 mi · 12
Frequently asked questions
About Viborg-Hurley Middle School - 03What is the total enrollment at Viborg-Hurley Middle School - 03?
Viborg-Hurley Middle School - 03 enrolls approximately 114 students in grades 05-08.
What age range does Viborg-Hurley Middle School - 03 serve?
Viborg-Hurley Middle School - 03 serves students from grade 05 through grade 08.
How many teachers does Viborg-Hurley Middle School - 03 have?
Viborg-Hurley Middle School - 03 employs 9 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.0:1.
What is the student diversity at Viborg-Hurley Middle School - 03?
Student demographics at Viborg-Hurley Middle School - 03 are roughly 87% White, 7% Hispanic, 1% Black, 4% Two or more.
Is Viborg-Hurley Middle School - 03 public or private?
Viborg-Hurley Middle School - 03 is a public K-12 school, overseen by Viborg-Hurley School District 60-6.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.