Summary:
Lennox School District 41-4 serves 1,192 students across five schools: two elementary schools, two middle schools and one high school. Across its four schools with 2025–2026 Smarter Balanced results, average proficiency was 62% in ELA and 64% in math, compared with 49% and 44% statewide. The clearest area-wide strength is math: the schools’ average lead over the state was 21 points, compared with 13 points in ELA.
Lennox Junior High - 08 led all-grades ELA at 70%, while Lennox Elementary - 02 was lowest at 59%, an 11-point spread. In math, Lennox Elementary led at 71%; Lennox Intermediate - 09 was lowest at 58%, a 12-point gap. Lennox High School - 01 also exceeded state results in all three reported Grade 11 ACT subjects: ELA, 65% versus 48%; math, 49% versus 34%; and science, 61% versus 45%. Elementary-grade results vary, too: Worthing Elementary - 05 scored 68% in Grade 3 ELA but 47% in Grade 4.
Results declined from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 across the four Smarter Balanced schools: average ELA fell from 69% to 62%, and math from 69% to 64%. Their average advantage over the state narrowed by 5 points in each subject. SchoolDigger ranks the district fifth of 126 South Dakota districts and gives it five stars; its school rankings moved in different directions, with Lennox Junior High improving from 13th of 147 to 6th of 151, while Worthing moved from 6th of 201 to 42nd of 203. As context, 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible rates ranged from 15% at Junior High to 24% at Worthing; those figures do not show a simple pattern with results. Among the schools, Worthing pairs relatively strong all-grades math (68%) with lower ELA (59%), while Junior High’s strongest result is ELA.
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