Best Public Schools in Stickney, SD

Stickney, South Dakota, has one listed school, Corsica-Stickney Elementary - 02, serving prekindergarten through grade 5, with 150 students. In 2025–2026, 70% of students were proficient in all-grades English language arts (ELA) and 81% in mathematics; statewide, the figures were 49% and 44%. The school was above the state in both subjects, with its clearest advantage in mathematics: 37 percentage points.

There is no local top or bottom school to compare because this list includes only one school. Still, Corsica-Stickney Elementary - 02 also exceeded the Corsica-Stickney 21-3 district results by 12 points in ELA and 23 points in math. Its 2025–2026 grade-level results were above state results in every reported grade and subject: grade 4 had the largest advantages, 35 points in ELA and 47 in math, while grade 5 ELA had the smallest, at 9 points. Chronic absenteeism was 4% at the school, compared with 5% in the district and 20% statewide.

Results improved from 2024–2025 in all three subjects reported across both years: ELA rose 3 points, math 3 points, and grade 5 science 6 points. The school’s state advantage grew by 5 points in ELA, 3 in math, and 5 in science. SchoolDigger ranked the school 10th of 203 in 2025–2026, in the 95th percentile, with five stars; it was 15th of 300 with five stars the prior year. As context, the student–teacher ratio was 13.9 in 2024–2025, and 21% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that school year. The single-school list cannot show how results vary among schools in the area.