Summary:
The Gettysburg School District 53-1 in South Dakota is home to a single middle school, Gettysburg Middle School - 03, which serves grades 6-8 with a total enrollment of 48 students.
Gettysburg Middle School - 03 stands out as an exceptional institution, consistently ranking among the top 20 middle schools in South Dakota over the past three school years, reaching as high as 8th out of 147 schools in the 2023-2024 school year. The school has maintained a 5-star rating from School Digger, indicating it is one of the top-performing schools in the state. Its proficiency rates on the Smarter Balanced Assessments in English Language Arts and Mathematics are significantly higher than the state averages, particularly in Mathematics where the school's overall proficiency rate is over 72% compared to the state average of 42.95%.
While the school's chronic absenteeism rate of 16.0% in the 2023-2024 school year is higher than the state average, it is still relatively low. The school's free and reduced lunch eligibility rate of 27.08% in the 2022-2023 school year is lower than the state average, and the district's spending per student of $12,958 for the 2022-2023 school year is higher than the state average. Additionally, Gettysburg Middle School - 03 had a student-teacher ratio of 10.8 to 1 in the 2022-2023 school year, which is lower than the state average and indicates a relatively small class size.
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