Enrollment
66
Middle
DISTRICT 91 · STATE 187
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WALL SCHOOL DISTRICT 51-5·NCES 467566001057
Wall Middle School - 06
401 S Blvd W, Wall, SD 57790 · (605) 279-2156 · Pennington County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE43-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL66 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 39% of South Dakota public middle schools
- B-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
11.2:1
6 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.8:1 · STATE 13.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
27%
18 students
DISTRICT 32% · 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 6 | 28 | 42% |
| Grade 7 | 20 | 30% |
| Grade 8 | 18 | 27% |
Student demographics
45%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 42% · 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
Wall Middle School - 06→Wall High School - 01
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Wall School District 51-5. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
SD Smarter Balanced 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
63.6%
SD avg 50.3% . +21.4pp since 2022
Math
54.6%
SD avg 47.5% . +20.2pp since 2022
What this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 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 21 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 20 points.
SD Smarter Balanced results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 63.6% | 54.6% |
| 2023-24 | 60.3% | 48.3% |
| 2022-23 | 42.2% | 34.4% |
% 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
45.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.9%
based on SD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 Wall Middle School - 06
Wall Middle School - 06's state test result (45.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wall Middle School - 06 this school | 66 | 27.3% | 45.5% |
| Sully Buttes Middle School - 06 Onida | 66 | 28.8% | 57.7% |
| Stanley County Middle School - 02 Fort Pierre | 106 | 23.6% | 37.6% |
| Redfield Middle School - 02 Redfield | 91 | 28.6% | 33.6% |
| Philip Jr. High - 03 Philip | 71 | 25.4% | 45.9% |
| Miller Jr. High - 04 Miller | 74 | 28.4% | 52.8% |
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 Wall Middle School - 06 ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In South Dakota | In Pennington County |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 66 | #96 of 165 | #9 of 9 |
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
66
-6 (-8%) vs 2020
+3% since 1990-91, when it was 64
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 18.0:1
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 | 66 | 5.9 | 11.2:1 | 27% (18) |
| 2023-24 | 59 | 5.9 | 10.0:1 | 20% (12) |
| 2022-23 | 68 | 6.7 | 10.2:1 | 28% (19) |
| 2020-21 | 72 | 4 | 18.0:1 | 33% (24) |
| 2017-18 | 56 | 6.1 | 9.2:1 | 27% (15) |
| 2015-16 | 52 | 3 | 17.3:1 | 37% (19) |
| 2010-11 | 49 | 2 | 24.5:1 | 47% (23) |
| 2000-01 | 88 | 6 | 14.7:1 | 30% (26) |
| 1990-91 | 64 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wall Middle School - 06.
Since 2017-18: students up 18% (56 to 66); teachers down 3% (6.1 to 5.9).
About Wall Middle School - 06
Wall Middle School - 06 sits in Wall, South Dakota, and is classified as a middle-grades school. Its enrollment is 66 students, spread over grades 6 through 8. That compares with an average of about 187 students for middle schools in South Dakota.
Wall School District 51-5 has a total of 3 schools and 273 students, Wall Middle School - 06 among them.
About 73% of the student body at Wall Middle School - 06 is White. The remaining students are 11% multiracial, 11% Native American, and 3% Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 45, compared with 70 nationally.
Staffing at Wall Middle School - 06 comes to 5.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 11.2:1. By comparison, the average for middle schools in South Dakota is 13.4:1. Wall Middle School - 06 counts 27% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Pennington County is 41%.
Wall Middle School - 06 holds a C+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 39% of South Dakota public middle schools.
Compared with South Dakota schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Wall Middle School - 06's results are 6.4 points below predicted: 45.5% against 51.9%.
The school's county is Pennington County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $74,517 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 35%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Public schools in Pennington County number 41, with about 16,186 students.
Wall High School - 01 is the nearest public school to Wall Middle School - 06, less than a tenth of a mile away. Counting only straight-line distance, 2 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, Wall Middle School - 06 is ahead of the 43.2% nearby average, ranking 4th of 6.
Wall Middle School - 06 is in rural territory far from an urban area, a location NCES labels Rural: Remote.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased 8%. The school's ratio dropped from 18.0:1 to 11.2:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Pennington County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
113,512
Census ACS
Median income
$74,517
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
41
16,186 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Wall School District 51-5
- Wall Elementary - 02Elementary · 107 students
- Wall High School - 01High · 100 students
- Big White Elementary - 08Elementary
Other schools in Wall
- Wall Elementary - 02Elementary · 107 students
- Wall High School - 01High · 100 students
Other Wall Middle schools
One other US public school is named Wall Middle. Wall Middle School - 06 is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Wall Middle SchoolWALL, TX · 438 students
Nearby schools
- Wall High School - 010.0 mi · 100
- Wall Elementary - 020.0 mi · 107
- Interior Elementary - 0922.5 mi · 15
- Elm Springs Elementary - 1326.2 mi · 10
- Philip Jr. High - 0329.0 mi · 71
- Philip Elementary - 0229.0 mi · 131
Frequently asked questions
About Wall Middle School - 06How large is Wall Middle School - 06?
Wall Middle School - 06 enrolls approximately 66 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Wall Middle School - 06 serve?
Wall Middle School - 06 serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Wall Middle School - 06?
Approximately 11.2:1 students per teacher at Wall Middle School - 06.
How diverse is Wall Middle School - 06?
Wall Middle School - 06 reports a student body of 73% White, 2% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Who oversees Wall Middle School - 06?
Wall Middle School - 06 is overseen by Wall School District 51-5 in Pennington County.
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