Summary:
Webster, South Dakota, has one listed middle school, Webster Area Middle School - 02, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 108 students; because it is the only school listed, there is no local school-to-school comparison. In 2025–2026, 57% of students were proficient in all-grades English language arts (ELA), 8 points above the state’s 49%; all-grades math proficiency was 41%, 3 points below the state’s 44%. The most important finding is the sharp contrast within math: eighth-grade proficiency was 17%, 26 points below the state.
The school’s strongest results were in ELA overall and sixth-grade math, while eighth-grade math was its clearest weakness. Sixth-grade math proficiency was 55%, 13 points above the state, and seventh-grade math was 46%, 2 points above; eighth-grade math was 17% versus 43% statewide. ELA was above the state in grades 6 and 8, but below it in grade 7. Results also varied more across math grades: proficiency ranged from 17% to 55%, a 38-point span, compared with a 12-point span in ELA. Eighth-grade science was another below-state result, at 31% versus 41%, or 9 points lower.
Recent results show the ELA advantage narrowing and math slipping below the state. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, all-grades ELA fell from 64% to 57%, reducing its state advantage from 13 points to 8; math fell from 44% to 41%, shifting from 1 point above the state to 3 points below. SchoolDigger ranked the school 44th of 147 schools (70th percentile) in 2023–2024, 52nd of 246 (79th percentile) in 2024–2025, and 74th of 151 (51st percentile) in 2025–2026. Other context: chronic absenteeism was 10% in 2025–2026, below the state’s 20% and the district’s 12%; the student-teacher ratio was 14.1:1 in 2024–2025, when 26% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. The district is Webster Area School District 18-5.
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