Summary:
The Colman-Egan School District 50-5 in South Dakota has only one middle school, Colman-Egan Junior High - 02, which serves grades 7-8. The school has seen a decline in its ranking over the past three years, going from 86 out of 143 in 2021-2022 to 124 out of 150 in 2022-2023 and 114 out of 147 in 2023-2024, earning it a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger.
Academically, Colman-Egan Junior High - 02 consistently underperforms the district and state averages in Smarter Balanced Assessments for both English Language Arts and Mathematics. In the 2023-2024 school year, the school's proficiency rates were 45.66% in ELA and 21.74% in Mathematics, compared to the district averages of 49.06% and 38.51%, and the state averages of 50.04% and 42.95%, respectively. The school's 8th-grade science proficiency rate was also low at 25%, compared to the district and state averages.
Despite these academic concerns, the school's chronic absenteeism rate of 4.2% is relatively low, and its free and reduced lunch rate of 12.77% suggests that a significant portion of the student population may come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. The school's spending per student was $9,780, and it had a student-teacher ratio of 16.7 in the 2022-2023 school year.
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