Summary:
Webster, South Dakota, has one listed elementary school, Webster Area Elementary - 03, serving prekindergarten through grade 5, with 274 students enrolled in 2024–2025. Its clearest strength in 2025–2026 was math: 59% of students were proficient, 15 percentage points above the state rate. The main concern is ELA, where 44% were proficient, 6 points below the state.
Webster Area Elementary - 03 is both the highest and lowest listed school by default; because it is the only school in the list, there is no school-to-school comparison. Within the school, results differ notably by subject and grade: fourth-grade math proficiency was 71%, 23 points above the state, while fourth-grade ELA was 36%, 12 points below. Attendance is a favorable measure: chronic absenteeism was 6% in 2025–2026, compared with 12% in the district and 20% statewide.
Results have shifted over time, especially in ELA: proficiency fell from 59% in 2024–2025 to 44% in 2025–2026, changing the school’s position from 8 points above the state to 6 points below. Math also declined, from 66% to 59%, but remained above the state; its lead narrowed from 22 points to 15. Fifth-grade science fell from 51% to 40%, moving from 11 points above the state to 1 point below. SchoolDigger rated the school at the 47th percentile with 2 stars in 2025–2026, down from the 82nd percentile and 4 stars the prior year. The student-teacher ratio was 14.1:1, and 34% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025.
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