Watertown Intermediate School - 13

Watertown Intermediate School - 13 operates as a roomy junior high in Watertown, South Dakota, run under Watertown School District 14-4. Current enrollment sits at 532 students spanning grades 5 through 6. Compared to the state average of about 187 students per school, that is 184% above typical.

Watertown School District 14-4 comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 3,754 students; Watertown Intermediate School - 13 is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Watertown Intermediate School - 13 shows that the largest single group is White, at 80% of enrollment; the rest looks like 9% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Native American. By comparison, Codington County as a whole is about 91% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Watertown Intermediate School - 13 has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.4:1. The state averages around 13.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 39% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Watertown Intermediate School - 13 sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.2%; this one delivers 51.1%.

Across the wider county, Codington County reports that median household earnings sit near $72,727, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Watertown Intermediate School - 13 is one of 18 public schools in Codington County (combined enrollment of about 4,561 students).

Watertown High School - 01 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Watertown Intermediate School - 13. On composite proficiency, Watertown Intermediate School - 13 comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 49.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Five-year trend. Watertown Intermediate School - 13's enrollment has declined 15% since 2018, when it stood at 629 (now 532). The White share of enrollment contracted from 86% to 80% over that span.

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