Summary:
The city of Winner, South Dakota, is home to a single elementary school, Winner Elementary - 04, which serves students from the Winner School District 59-2. Despite the school's relatively small class sizes and higher-than-average spending per student, it has consistently ranked in the bottom half of South Dakota elementary schools and struggles to meet state proficiency standards in core academic subjects.
Winner Elementary - 04 has a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger and its proficiency rates in Smarter Balanced Assessments for English Language Arts and Mathematics are below the state averages across all grade levels. For example, in the 2024-2025 school year, the school's ELA proficiency rate for all grades was 38.56%, compared to the state average of 50.93%. The school's 5th-grade science proficiency rate was also below the state average, at 32% compared to 40.54%.
The school's relatively high percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch, at 35.82% in the 2023-2024 school year, suggests that it serves a population with significant economic challenges, which may be a contributing factor to the school's low academic performance. While the district appears to be allocating resources to the school, the impact on student outcomes is not yet evident, and further investigation may be needed to understand how the school is using its resources and whether they are being effectively deployed to support student learning.
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