Wolsey Wessington Elementary - 02

Wolsey Wessington Elementary - 02 is an elementary school of tight-knit scale in Wolsey, South Dakota, run under Wolsey Wessington School District 02-6, teacheing 145 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, South Dakota's public schools average about 204 students each, so Wolsey Wessington Elementary - 02 sits 29% below that benchmark.

Within Wolsey Wessington School District 02-6, which oversees 3 schools and 316 students, Wolsey Wessington Elementary - 02 is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Wolsey Wessington Elementary - 02 logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). The remainder comes out to 7% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Beadle County as a whole is about 72% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Wolsey Wessington Elementary - 02 reports 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting Wolsey Wessington Elementary - 02 tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 29% of students at Wolsey Wessington Elementary - 02 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Beadle County's rate of about 62%.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Wolsey Wessington Elementary - 02 sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 51.1%; actual is 34.4%, a gap of -16.7 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Beadle County put the typical household earns roughly $67,681 per year, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Beadle County's 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,544 students), Wolsey Wessington Elementary - 02 is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Wolsey Wessington High School - 01, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wolsey Wessington Elementary - 02 ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 32.8%.

Wolsey Wessington Elementary - 02 operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wolsey Wessington Elementary - 02 has fell 6%, going from 155 students in 2018 to 145 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 86% to 91% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 10.6:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

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