Warner Middle School - 03

Set in Warner, South Dakota, Warner Middle School - 03 is a small 6-8 campus, part of Warner School District 06-5. It works with 83 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 56% below the state mean of about 187.

Warner Middle School - 03 is one of 3 schools operated by Warner School District 06-5, a district that enrolls 313 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Warner Middle School - 03 logs that nearly all students (92%) are White. The remainder comes out to 6% multiracial, 2% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 10% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Brown County's rate of about 35%.

With demographic context factored in, Warner Middle School - 03 is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 59.1%; this one delivers 72.9%, a residual of +13.8 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Brown County) logs that median household income runs about $70,898, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Brown County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,354 students), of which Warner Middle School - 03 is one.

The closest other public school is Warner Elementary - 02, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Warner Middle School - 03 comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 50.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 22%: 68 students in 2018 compared to 83 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 in 2025.

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