White Lake Elementary - 02

Set in White Lake, South Dakota, White Lake Elementary - 02 is a rural-scale elementary-level community, operated by White Lake School District 01-3. It teaches 62 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 70% below the state mean of about 204.

Within White Lake School District 01-3, which oversees 3 schools and 125 students, White Lake Elementary - 02 is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, White Lake Elementary - 02 records that 98% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The wider county runs roughly 87% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.4:1. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 42% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, White Lake Elementary - 02 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.8%, the actual is 48.8%, a residual of +3.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Aurora County indicate the typical household earns roughly $72,885 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Aurora County runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 566 students), of which White Lake Elementary - 02 is one.

Nearest neighbor: White Lake High School - 01, around 0.0 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts White Lake Elementary - 02 at 3rd of 5; the average score across the group is 40.5%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Trend over the last 7 years. White Lake Elementary - 02's enrollment has declined 18% since 2018, when it stood at 76 (now 62). Over the same period, the White share ticked up from 92% to 98%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 today.

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