Wilmot School District 54-7

The three schools in Wilmot School District 54-7 serve students from prekindergarten through grade 12 and enroll 234 students: 112 at Wilmot Elementary, 58 at Wilmot Middle and 64 at Wilmot High. The clearest school-to-school difference is in 2025–26 all-grades math: elementary proficiency was 58%, compared with 18% at middle school, a 41-point gap. In ELA, the schools were much closer—46% and 44%, respectively—but both were below the state result. The most important finding is that elementary and middle school math results differ sharply, while their ELA results are similar.

Wilmot Elementary stands out for math: its all-grades result was 15 points above the state, while Wilmot Middle was 26 points below. Middle-school math was below the state in each tested grade, by 17 to 31 points. Elementary’s fifth-grade math was especially strong at 65%, 22 points above the state, though fifth-grade science was 12 points below. At Wilmot High, 11th-grade ACT ELA was 22 points below the state, while science was 2 points above; the graduation rate was 75%, compared with 88% statewide.

Elementary and middle results improved year over year in all-grades ELA and math, but not equally: middle ELA rose 15 points, while middle math increased just 1 point and remained 26 points below the state. SchoolDigger ranks the district 107th of 126 South Dakota districts, in the 15th percentile, with one star; its school percentiles rose from 15 to 43 for elementary, 13 to 17 for middle and 18 to 23 for high school from 2023–24 to 2025–26. In 2024–25, student-teacher ratios ranged from 10.1 at high school to 13.1 at middle school. All three schools reported free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25: 48% at elementary, 55% at middle and 52% at high school. High-school test results across the supplied years are not a direct trend comparison because the reported tests and grades differ.