Best Middle Schools in South Dakota for Special Education Students

Check out our new feature available only on SchoolDigger: rankings for different groups of students in South Dakota!

Every year, the South Dakota Department of Education shares test results for various student groups in each school. We use these results to find out which schools do best for each group and list them from the best to the worst.

Additionally, we also compare the performance of the subgroup to the performance of the school as a whole. This makes it easy to see if, for example, Special Education students are overperforming or underperforming their peers in each school.

Year after year, SchoolDigger is always the first to publish South Dakota test scores and rankings. Other sites use stale test score data that are several years old! Be in the know with the very latest performance metrics.

The list is updated annually upon the release of the Smarter Balanced Assessments test scores by the South Dakota Department of Education. The most recent update was on Thursday, October 17, 2024.

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School															Students/Teachers											Per Pupil Expenditures (2023)							Ranking (Special Education vs All Students - 2024)
ID	Rank (of 29)	School	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	# Students	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Disc Lunch Recipients	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Per Pupil Expenditures: Total	Personnel from Federal Funds	Non-Personnel from Federal Funds	Total from Federal Funds	Personnel from State and Local Funds	Non-Personnel from State and Local Funds	Total from State and Local Funds	Statewide Rank Percentile (Special Education)	Statewide Rank Percentile (All Students)	Rank Percentile Difference from All Students	SchoolDigger Rating (Special Education)	SchoolDigger Rating (All Students)
464155000963	1	Lennox Junior High - 08	Public	7-8	1201 S Main St	Lennox	57039	Lincoln County	Lennox School District 41-4	(n/a)	(n/a)	No	No	(605) 647-2203	184	12	15.8	16.3%	167 (90.8%)	1 (0.5%)	3 (1.6%)	0 (0.0%)	5 (2.7%)	0 (0.0%)	8 (4.3%)	$9,812			$259			$9,553	96.6%	91.2%	5.40%
467662000718	2	Watertown Middle School - 02	Public	7-8	1700 11th St NE	Watertown	57201	Codington County	Watertown School District 14-4	(n/a)	(n/a)	No	No	(605) 882-6370	587	38	15.5	27.9%	482 (82.1%)	3 (0.5%)	47 (8.0%)	0 (0.0%)	18 (3.1%)	0 (0.0%)	37 (6.3%)	$9,359			$471			$8,887	93.1%	79.6%	13.51%
466045000858	3	Redfield Middle School - 02	Public	6-8	111 6th Ave E	Redfield	57469	Spink County	Redfield School District 56-4	(n/a)	(n/a)	No	No	(605) 472-4520	103	11	9.3	30.1%	88 (85.4%)	4 (3.9%)	9 (8.7%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (1.0%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (1.0%)	$11,857			$800			$11,057	89.7%	20.4%	69.25%
460207000005	4	Holgate Middle School - 02	Public	6-8	2200 N Dakota St	Aberdeen	57401	Brown County	Aberdeen School District 06-1	(n/a)	(n/a)	No	No	(605) 725-7700	490	34	14.2	26.1%	362 (73.9%)	11 (2.2%)	26 (5.3%)	17 (3.5%)	33 (6.7%)	3 (0.6%)	38 (7.8%)	$9,940			$411			$9,529	86.2%	78.2%	7.98%
465982000457	5	Southwest Middle School - 38	Public	6-8	4501 Park Dr	Rapid City	57702	Pennington County	Rapid City Area School District 51-4	(n/a)	(n/a)	No	No	(605) 394-6792	665	37	17.9	11.1%	509 (76.5%)	5 (0.8%)	44 (6.6%)	13 (2.0%)	39 (5.9%)	3 (0.5%)	52 (7.8%)	$9,912			$659			$9,253	82.8%	95.9%	13.16%
464494000406	6	Tri-Valley Intermediate School - 03	Public	5-8	46450 252nd St	Colton	57018	Minnehaha County	Tri-Valley School District 49-6	(n/a)	(n/a)	No	No	(605) 446-3538	303	19	15.9	15.8%	253 (83.5%)	21 (6.9%)	13 (4.3%)	0 (0.0%)	2 (0.7%)	0 (0.0%)	14 (4.6%)	$10,033			$655			$9,378	79.3%	53.1%	26.25%
463960000364	7	Madison Middle School - 02	Public	6-8	830 NE 9th St	Madison	57042	Lake County	Madison Central School District 39-2	(n/a)	(n/a)	No	No	(605) 256-7717	274	22	12.3	23.4%	221 (80.7%)	6 (2.2%)	31 (11.3%)	1 (0.4%)	6 (2.2%)	0 (0.0%)	9 (3.3%)	$10,553			$890			$9,663	75.9%	66.0%	9.88%
460005200853	8	Tea Area Middle School - 02	Public	6-8	515 W Brian St	Tea	57064	Lincoln County	Tea Area School District 41-5	(n/a)	(n/a)	No	No	(605) 498-2700	556	32	17.4	19.8%	461 (82.9%)	26 (4.7%)	29 (5.2%)	4 (0.7%)	9 (1.6%)	0 (0.0%)	27 (4.9%)	$9,113			$448			$8,665	72.4%	61.9%	10.51%
466627000604	9	Patrick Henry Middle School - 07	Public	6-8	2200 S 5th Ave	Sioux Falls	57105	Minnehaha County	Sioux Falls School District 49-5	(n/a)	(n/a)	No	No	(605) 367-7639	953	59	16.1	30.1%	673 (70.6%)	58 (6.1%)	74 (7.8%)	22 (2.3%)	50 (5.2%)	0 (0.0%)	76 (8.0%)	$10,747			$1,086			$9,661	69.0%	80.3%	11.31%
466993000653	10	Sturgis Williams Middle School - 02	Public	5-8	1425 Cedar St	Sturgis	57785	Meade County	Meade School District 46-1	(n/a)	(n/a)	No	No	(605) 347-5232	485	32	15.3	33.4%	423 (87.2%)	2 (0.4%)	20 (4.1%)	3 (0.6%)	16 (3.3%)	0 (0.0%)	21 (4.3%)	$8,875			$318			$8,557	65.5%	50.3%	15.18%

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About our rankings:

Schooldigger calculates school rankings based on Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts, Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics, Smarter Balanced Assessments Science test scores released by the South Dakota Department of Education.
These rankings were last updated on October 17, 2024, and are based on the most recent test scores available. We update rankings as we receive new test scores from the South Dakota Department of Education, usually on a yearly basis.
Our sources of data include the National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education and the South Dakota Department of Education.
For more information about our ranking process, please see our Ranking FAQ. Details about our methodology are here.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the South Dakota Department of Education.