Summary:
Viborg, South Dakota, has three schools serving elementary and high-school students, with a reported combined enrollment of 289: Viborg-Hurley Elementary - 02 has 153 students, Viborg-Hurley High School - 01 has 124, and Cameron Colony Elementary - 04 has 12. The clearest strength is elementary mathematics: Viborg-Hurley Elementary - 02 scored 65% in 2025–2026, 22 points above the state.
Viborg-Hurley Elementary - 02 stands out against the state in both subjects: its all-grades ELA result was 55%, 5 points above the state, while mathematics was 65%, 22 points above. Its grade 3 and 4 math results were also above the state by 19 and 12 points. Viborg-Hurley High School - 01 has a more mixed profile: grade 11 ACT ELA was 56%, 7 points above the state, and science was 53%, 8 points above, but mathematics was 21%, 13 points below. Its results matched the district in all three subjects. Cameron Colony Elementary - 04 cannot be placed above or below the others because its 2025–2026 school test results are suppressed.
The available trend is positive at Viborg-Hurley Elementary - 02: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA rose 3 points and mathematics rose 3 points; its advantage over the state grew from nearly even to 5 points in ELA and from 19 to 22 points in mathematics. SchoolDigger’s high-school percentile rank rose from 16 to 36 to 50 over three years, while the elementary school’s rank was 79, 65, then 74; rankings are not test-score changes. In 2024–2025, the high school’s student-teacher ratio was 12.9, compared with 16.3 at the elementary school, and their reported free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 32% and 27%, respectively. These figures provide context, not an explanation for their different subject results; the high school’s assessment changed between years, and the suppressed Cameron Colony results prevent an area-wide trend from being established.
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