Yankton Middle School - 02

Yankton Middle School - 02 operates as a well-populated 6-8 campus in Yankton, South Dakota, overseen by Yankton School District 63-3. Current enrollment sits at 608 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 225% above the typical public school in South Dakota, which averages around 187 students.

Yankton Middle School - 02 is one of 6 schools operated by Yankton School District 63-3, a district that instructs 3,021 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Yankton Middle School - 02 reports that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 14% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 88% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.5:1. The state averages around 13.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 40% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Yankton Middle School - 02 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.7%, the actual is 49.4%, a residual of +2.6 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Yankton County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $72,821 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Yankton County runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,321 students), of which Yankton Middle School - 02 is one.

Stewart Elementary - 05 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Yankton Middle School - 02 comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 42.5%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 4%: 635 students in 2018 compared to 608 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 83% to 72% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 in 2025.

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