Summary:
Batesland, South Dakota, has one listed school, Batesland School - 01, serving prekindergarten through grade 8 in Oglala Lakota County. The school has 175 students and is part of Oglala Lakota County School District 65-1. In 2025–2026, its reported all-grades results were well below state levels in both ELA and science: 14% versus 49% in ELA, and 10% versus 42% in science.
There is no meaningful top or bottom school to compare because Batesland is the only school in the list. Within the school, ELA results varied considerably by grade: grade 6 was the relative high point at 30%, while grade 5 was lowest at 8%; the state results for those grades were 48% and 51%, respectively. The school’s grade-level spread was 22 points, compared with 10 points statewide. Batesland’s all-grades ELA result was 5 points above its district’s 9%, but 35 points below the state. Its science result was 32 points below the state.
ELA improved from 12% in 2024–2025 to 14% in 2025–2026, while the state result fell from 51% to 49%; the school-state gap narrowed by 4 points but remained large. Science declined from 11% to 10%, as the state fell from 44% to 42%, and the gap narrowed by 1 point. SchoolDigger gives Batesland 0 stars and a statewide rank of 197 out of 203, at the 3rd percentile; its prior entry was 282 out of 300, at the 6th percentile, and the rankings use groups of different sizes. Other context includes a 12.5:1 student–teacher ratio and $33,097 in spending per student in 2024–2025. In that school year, 30% of students were directly certified for free meals, and the school was marked “CEP likely.” Chronic absenteeism was 52% in 2025–2026, below the district’s 57% but above the state’s 20%. These figures provide context, not an explanation for achievement results.
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