Waverly-South Shore Elementary - 02

As a close-knit elementary-level community in Waverly, South Dakota, Waverly-South Shore Elementary - 02 serves 128 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within Waverly School District 14-5. That puts it 37% leaner than the typical public school in South Dakota, which averages around 204 students.

Within Waverly School District 14-5, which oversees 3 schools and 283 students, Waverly-South Shore Elementary - 02 is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Waverly-South Shore Elementary - 02 shows that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 8% Native American, 6% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Codington County as a whole is about 91% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Codington County's rate of about 36%.

After controlling for student poverty, Waverly-South Shore Elementary - 02 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.2%, the actual is 34.1%, a residual of -8.1 points.

In the area at large, Codington County reports that median household earnings sit near $72,727, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Codington County's 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,561 students), Waverly-South Shore Elementary - 02 is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Waverly-South Shore Middle School - 03, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Waverly-South Shore Elementary - 02 at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 50.1%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Waverly-South Shore Elementary - 02 has showed little movement, going from 131 students in 2018 to 128 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 94% to 82% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 today.

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