Summary:
Middle schools in Yankton School District 63-3 consist of one school, Yankton Middle School - 02, serving grades 6–8 and 608 students. With only one school, there is no meaningful comparison among local middle schools; state and district results provide context. The school’s clearest strength is English language arts (ELA): in 2025–2026, 59% of students were proficient, 10 percentage points above the state.
Yankton Middle is both the highest and lowest school in this one-school group, so those labels do not indicate a peer advantage or disadvantage. Compared with the state, it stood out in ELA, with proficiency above state results in all three grades: 14 points higher in grade 6, 6 in grade 7, and 5 in grade 8. Mathematics was less strong: overall proficiency was 42%, 2 points below the state. Grade 7 was the clearest concern, at 4 points below the state, while grades 6 and 8 were about level with it. Eighth-grade science was essentially even with the state in 2025–2026.
Results shifted in different directions over time: ELA proficiency rose from 56% to 59%, widening the school’s advantage over the state from 5 to 10 points, while mathematics fell from 43% to 42% and moved slightly farther below the state. The sharpest change was in eighth-grade science, which dropped 15 points, from 55% in 2024–2025 to 41% in 2025–2026; the state also fell, but by 2 points. SchoolDigger gives the district 3 stars and a rank of 61 out of 126; its school ranking was 63 out of 151 in 2025–2026, though ranking pools changed across years. Other context: the school’s student–teacher ratio was 16.5 and 40% were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. Chronic absenteeism was 10% in 2025–2026, 10 percentage points below the state rate.
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