Summary:
The Waubay School District 18-3 in South Dakota is home to a single middle school, Waubay Middle School - 03, which serves students in grades 6-8. Despite the school's small size and relatively high per-student spending, it faces significant challenges, with consistently low academic performance compared to state and district averages.
Waubay Middle School - 03 has a statewide ranking between 124th and 171st out of 147-246 South Dakota middle schools over the past three years. The school's proficiency rates on Smarter Balanced Assessments are well below the state averages in both English Language Arts and Mathematics, with particularly low performance in 8th-grade subjects. In 2024-2025, the school's proficiency rates were 34.78% in ELA and 34.78% in Math, compared to the state averages of 50.93% and 43.49%, respectively.
The school's small student population of 27 students includes a high percentage of free and reduced-price lunch recipients, at 48.15% in 2023-2024. While the school's student-teacher ratio is low at 9.3, the combination of low academic performance, high student needs, and small school size may present unique challenges for the school and district in terms of resource allocation, instructional strategies, and targeted interventions to support student learning.
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