Waverly-South Shore Middle School - 03

Set in Waverly, South Dakota, Waverly-South Shore Middle School - 03 is an one-room-style intermediate school, one of the schools within Waverly School District 14-5. It instructs 69 students across grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 187 students per school, that is 63% leaner than typical.

Waverly-South Shore Middle School - 03 is one of 3 schools operated by Waverly School District 14-5, a district that educates 283 students overall.

Demographically, Waverly-South Shore Middle School - 03 shows that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 3% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.4:1 average. Around 38% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Waverly-South Shore Middle School - 03 falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 47.6%; this one comes in at 32.4%, -15.2 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Codington County) reports that median household income runs about $72,727, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Codington County's 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,561 students), Waverly-South Shore Middle School - 03 is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Waverly-South Shore High School - 01, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Waverly-South Shore Middle School - 03. On composite proficiency, Waverly-South Shore Middle School - 03 comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 50.4%.

Waverly-South Shore Middle School - 03 operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 30%: 53 students in 2018 compared to 69 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 10.7:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.

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