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Best Public Schools in Edgemont, SD


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119
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Top rankedEdgemont Elementary - 03136th of 203 South Dakota elementary schools
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Biggest riser
Edgemont Elementary - 03 up 40 spots statewide this year
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Summary:

Edgemont, South Dakota, has two schools serving preschool through grade 12: Edgemont Elementary - 03 serves PK–8, and Edgemont High School - 01 serves grades 9–12. In 2025–2026, the elementary school’s all-grades proficiency was below South Dakota’s in ELA (36% versus 49%), mathematics (31% versus 44%) and science (31% versus 42%). The high school’s school-level test results are suppressed, so the data cannot establish which school performs better academically overall. The clearest overall academic finding is that the elementary school trailed the state in all three reported subjects.

Fourth grade is the elementary school’s strongest reported bright spot: proficiency exceeded the state by 7 percentage points in ELA (55% versus 48%) and 15 points in mathematics (64% versus 49%). Seventh grade is the clearest concern, with results 26 points below the state in both ELA (27% versus 53%) and mathematics (18% versus 44%). Eighth-grade science was nearly even with the state, at 40% versus 41%. The high school’s academic standing cannot be compared with the elementary school’s, but its reported 2025–2026 dropout rate was 0%, compared with 2% statewide; its 2023–2024 graduation rate was 91%, though the supplied state figure is from a different year.

Recent results show a mixed pattern: elementary ELA improved by 2 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while mathematics fell by 2 points and science by 15; relative to the state, the ELA gap narrowed by 4 points, while the science gap widened by 13. SchoolDigger’s latest listed rankings place both schools below the midpoint of their statewide ranking distributions: the elementary school at the 33rd percentile in 2025–2026 and the high school at the 22nd percentile in 2024–2025, with ranking pools varying by year. As context, in 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 52% at the elementary school and 54% at the high school. Their student–teacher ratios were 8.5 and 5.5, respectively, in 2024–2025; elementary chronic absenteeism was 17%, below the state’s 20%.

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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.

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