Summary:
The McLaughlin School District 15-2 in South Dakota has only one middle school, McLaughlin Middle School - 03, which serves students in grades 6-8. The school's performance has been consistently low, ranking near the bottom of South Dakota middle schools in recent years.
McLaughlin Middle School - 03 has struggled academically, with proficiency rates on Smarter Balanced Assessments significantly below the state averages in English Language Arts (14.1% vs. 50.93%), Mathematics (7.69% vs. 43.49%), and Science (8% vs. 42.51%). The school's performance has declined over the past two years, and it faces challenges such as a high chronic absenteeism rate of 20.2%.
Despite the school's high per-student spending of $23,198 and a low student-to-teacher ratio of 8.3 to 1, the academic outcomes remain poor. This raises questions about the effective allocation and utilization of resources within the school and the McLaughlin School District 15-2, which is ranked 145th out of 147 districts in South Dakota and rated 0 stars out of 5 by SchoolDigger.
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