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Webster Area School District 18-5


At a glance
63rdof 126 South Dakota districts▼ 28
Better than 50% of South Dakota districts
Elementary 1Middle 1High 1Grades PK, KG-12
102 E 9th Ave
Webster, SD 57274·(605) 345-3548·All South Dakota district rankings →
Statewide performance 2018–2026
2026: better than 50% of districts
3
Schools
546
Students
Top rankedWebster Area High School - 0151st of 130 South Dakota high schools
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Biggest riser
Webster Area High School - 01 up 36 spots statewide this year
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Summary:

The three schools in Webster Area School District 18-5 serve students from prekindergarten through grade 12: Webster Area Elementary - 03 serves PK–5, Webster Area Middle School - 02 serves grades 6–8, and Webster Area High School - 01 serves grades 9–12. The main pattern is that strengths vary by school, subject, and grade: elementary mathematics and middle-school ELA stand out, while high-school mathematics and grade 8 mathematics are weaker spots. The clearest takeaway is that no single school leads across every subject.

In 2025–2026, Webster Area Elementary - 03 led the elementary and middle schools in all-grades mathematics, with 59% proficient—15 percentage points above the state and 18 points above the middle school. Its ELA result was 44%, 6 points below the state. Webster Area Middle School - 02 led in all-grades ELA at 57%, 8 points above the state and 13 points above the elementary school; its mathematics result was 41%, 3 points below the state. Grade-level results show sharper contrasts: middle-school grade 8 mathematics was 17%, 26 points below the state, while elementary grade 4 mathematics reached 71%, 23 points above. At the high school, grade 11 ELA and science were 12 and 8 points above state results, respectively, while mathematics was 7 points below. The high school’s graduation rate was 98%, 10 points above the state.

Compared with 2024–2025, elementary and middle all-grades results declined in both subjects, but the pattern differed: elementary ELA fell 16 percentage points and moved from 8 points above the state to 6 below; middle ELA fell 7 points but remained 8 above. Their mathematics scores fell 7 and 3 points, respectively. SchoolDigger’s latest rankings were the 47th percentile for the elementary school, 51st for the middle school, and 61st for the high school; since 2023–2024, those positions fell 33 and 19 percentile points for the first two schools and 4 for the high school. Student–teacher ratios in 2024–2025 were similar at the elementary and middle schools (14.1 each) and 13.5 at the high school. All three reported **free/reduced lunch eligible (FRL), 2024–2025**: 34% at the elementary school, 26% at the middle school, and 20% at the high school. Elementary and middle all-grades results cover different grade spans, and the high school’s scores are not a year-to-year trend because its reported test changed.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the South Dakota Department of Education.

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