Summary:
Redfield School District 56-4 in South Dakota has only one middle school, Redfield Middle School - 02, which serves students in grades 6-8. The school's performance has declined in recent years, with a 2-out-of-5-star rating from SchoolDigger for the 2024-2025 school year, placing it in the bottom half of South Dakota middle schools.
Redfield Middle School - 02 faces significant academic challenges, with proficiency rates in both English Language Arts and Mathematics well below the state averages across all grade levels. For example, the school's overall ELA proficiency rate was 40% in 2024-2025, compared to the state average of 50.93%. Similarly, the school's Mathematics proficiency rate of 36.67% lags behind the state's 43.49%. Additionally, the school's chronic absenteeism rate of 20.2% is higher than the state average, which could be contributing to the low academic performance.
Despite the school's academic struggles, it has a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 9.3 and a higher per-student spending of $11,905, both of which are better than the state averages. However, these resources do not appear to be translating into improved student outcomes, suggesting the need for more targeted interventions and instructional strategies to address the underlying issues and help Redfield Middle School - 02 improve its performance.
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