Summary:
Armour School District 21-1 in South Dakota has only one middle school, Armour Middle School - 03, which serves students in grades 6-8. The school's performance has fluctuated over the past three years, with its statewide ranking ranging from 65th to 94th out of 150-246 South Dakota middle schools. While the school's proficiency rates in English Language Arts and Mathematics are mixed compared to state averages, it has a relatively small student population of 54 and a lower student-teacher ratio than the state average.
Armour Middle School - 03's performance on Smarter Balanced Assessments has been varied, with some grade levels performing above the district and state averages in ELA and Math, while others are below. In the 2024-2025 school year, the school's proficiency rates were 51.02% in ELA and 48.98% in Math, compared to the state averages of 50.93% and 43.49%, respectively. However, the school's 8th-grade science proficiency rate of 35.29% was lower than the state average of 42.51%.
Despite the school's mixed academic performance, it has a higher per-student spending of $13,518 and a lower student-teacher ratio of 10.8, both of which are better than the state averages. This suggests that the Armour School District 21-1 is allocating more resources per student at Armour Middle School - 03, though the impact of these resources on student outcomes is not clear from the data provided.
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