Watertown High School - 01

Watertown High School - 01 is a four-year high school of roomy scale in Watertown, South Dakota, part of Watertown School District 14-4, works with 1,222 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 443% bigger than the typical public school in South Dakota, which averages around 225 students.

Watertown School District 14-4 runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 3,754 students. Watertown High School - 01 is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Watertown High School - 01 reports that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 91% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 73 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.8:1. The state averages around 20.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 30% of students at Watertown High School - 01 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Codington County indicate the typical household earns roughly $72,727 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Codington County's 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,561 students), Watertown High School - 01 is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Watertown Intermediate School - 13, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Watertown High School - 01.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 1,211 students in 2018 compared to 1,222 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 90% to 82%.

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