Summary:
Warner Elementary - 02 is the only elementary school listed in Warner School District 06-5, serving students in kindergarten through grade 5. Its reported 2025–2026 proficiency is far above South Dakota’s in every listed subject: 93% in English Language Arts (ELA) and 96% in math, compared with 49% and 44% statewide, and 77% in fifth-grade science versus 41% statewide. The clearest takeaway is that the school’s results substantially exceed state proficiency, especially in math.
There is no meaningful top-to-bottom comparison among local schools because the list contains only one; Warner Elementary - 02 is both the highest and lowest by default. Its strongest relative result is math, where it is 52 percentage points above the state, compared with a 44-point advantage in ELA and a 36-point advantage in fifth-grade science. The high results extend across grades 3–5: proficiency ranges from 91% to 96% in ELA and from 91% to 100% in math; fourth-grade math is 100%. SchoolDigger ranks the school 2nd of 203 statewide, in the 99th percentile, and gives it five stars.
Results rose from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 in all three comparable measures, and the school’s advantages over the state widened. ELA increased from 87% to 93%, while the state result fell from 51% to 49%; Warner’s ELA advantage widened by 8 percentage points. Math rose from 92% to 96%, and its state advantage widened by 4 points. Fifth-grade science increased from 73% to 77%, widening its state advantage by 4 points. The school also reports chronic absenteeism of 1%, versus 20% statewide. For context, it had 145 students and a student–teacher ratio of 13.1 in 2024–2025; 5% were free/reduced lunch eligible in school year 2024–2025. These figures describe the school, but the single-school list does not allow comparisons with similar local schools.
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