Summary:
Parker School District 60-4 has one listed elementary school, Parker Elementary - 02, serving kindergarten through grade 6 and enrolling 238 students. In 2025–26, its all-grade ELA result was 50%, about 1 point above South Dakota’s 49%, while math was 42%, about 2 points below the state’s 44%. The most important finding for families is the sharp variation by grade, especially grade 4’s low results in both subjects.
Grade 6 stands out in math: 57% of students met the standard, 15 points above the state; grade 5 ELA was also strong at 67%, 16 points above the state. At the other end, grade 4 math was 18%, 30 points below the state, and grade 4 ELA was 24%, 24 points below. Because this list includes only one school, it cannot provide a meaningful ranking of schools against one another. The school’s 2025–26 chronic absenteeism was comparatively low: 4%, versus 11% districtwide and 20% statewide.
Results have shifted differently by subject: all-grade ELA rose from 43% in 2024–25 to 50% in 2025–26, moving from 8 points below the state to 1 point above; math slipped from 43% to 42%, and its state gap widened from nearly even to 2 points below. Grade 5 science remains a strength, though its advantage over the state narrowed from 18 points in 2024–25 to 10 points in 2025–26. SchoolDigger’s ranking percentile edged up from the 46th percentile in 2023–24 to the 48th in 2025–26. For context, the school reported a student–teacher ratio of 12.2 and 20% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25; these figures describe the school but do not explain its test results.
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