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Best Public Schools in Winner, SD


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3
Schools
827
Students
Top rankedWinner High School - 01106th of 130 South Dakota high schools
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Biggest riser
Winner Middle School - 02 up 42 spots statewide this year
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Summary:

Winner, South Dakota, has three schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12: Winner Elementary (465 students), Winner Middle School (159), and Winner High School (203). The latest results show a broad gap from state performance: elementary and middle average 34% in ELA versus 49% statewide, and 26% in math versus 44%. High school’s grade 11 ACT results are also below state figures in ELA, math, and science. The most important area-wide concern is that math results are especially far behind the state.

Neither elementary nor middle stands out as stronger in every subject: middle leads ELA at 38%, compared with elementary’s 30%, while elementary leads math at 31%, compared with middle’s 20%. Both schools remain below state results in both subjects. Grade-level scores show an important exception: elementary fifth-grade math is just 1 point below the state, at 41% versus 43%, while middle-school seventh-grade math is 34 points below, at 10% versus 44%. High school’s ACT results are 44% in ELA, 16% in math, and 38% in science, all below state results. SchoolDigger ranks all three schools low statewide: elementary and middle are each at the 13th percentile, and high school is at the 18th.

Recent Smarter Balanced results weakened at elementary and were nearly flat or lower at middle: elementary ELA fell 8 points and math fell 4; middle ELA fell 2, while math was essentially unchanged. Both schools’ results moved further behind the state overall. SchoolDigger’s rankings also fell from 2023–2024 to 2025–2026 for middle (27th to 13th percentile) and high school (40th to 18th); elementary rose from the 11th to 13th percentile, after reaching the 34th in 2024–2025. In 2024–2025, student-teacher ratios were similar—16 at elementary, 15 at middle, and 15.1 at high school. Free/reduced lunch eligible shares that school year were 43%, 47%, and 36%, respectively; these figures provide context, not an explanation for school results. High school’s latest ACT results are not directly comparable with the other schools’ latest scores.

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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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