Warner Elementary - 02

Set in Warner, South Dakota, Warner Elementary - 02 is a compact K-5 school, run under Warner School District 06-5. It enrolls 145 students across grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 29% smaller than the state mean of about 204.

Warner School District 06-5 runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 313 students. Warner Elementary - 02 is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Warner Elementary - 02 reports that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 85% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.1:1. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 5% of students at Warner Elementary - 02 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Brown County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Warner Elementary - 02 ranks in the top 10% of South Dakota public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 61.0%; Warner Elementary - 02 posts 82.8%, +21.7 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Brown County) records that the typical household earns roughly $70,898 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Brown County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,354 students), Warner Elementary - 02 is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Warner High School - 01, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Warner Elementary - 02 comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 48.0%.

Warner Elementary - 02 operates from a low-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 4%: 151 students in 2018 compared to 145 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

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