Summary:
The city of Dupree, South Dakota is home to a single middle school, Dupree Junior High - 04, which serves grades 6-8. Despite the school's small student population of just 58 students, its performance has consistently ranked in the bottom 10% of middle schools in the state over the past three school years.
Dupree Junior High - 04 faces significant challenges, with extremely low proficiency rates on standardized tests. In the most recent school year, only 10.64% of students were proficient or better in English Language Arts, compared to the state average of 50.93%, and just 4.26% were proficient in math, versus 43.49% statewide. The school also struggles with high chronic absenteeism, at 20.2%, and 100% of its students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a very high-poverty student population.
Despite the school's high per-student spending of $19,355, which is significantly above the state average, and a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 12.6 to 1, Dupree Junior High - 04 continues to underperform. These results suggest that the Dupree School District 64-2 faces significant resource and equity challenges that are negatively impacting student outcomes, and that targeted interventions and additional support are needed to help turn around the performance of this struggling middle school.
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