Wolsey Wessington Middle School - 03

Wolsey Wessington Middle School - 03 serves 75 students in grades 6–8 in Wolsey, South Dakota; the only nearby school in the supplied comparison is Huron Middle School - 02, about 12 miles away. The most important concern is that the school’s latest results trail the state in every reported subject, with especially low sixth-grade results: 19% proficient in ELA and 10% in math.

Compared with Huron, the school is strongest in seventh grade, where its ELA and math results are slightly higher: 45% versus 44% in ELA and 35% versus 33% in math. But overall, it trails Huron in ELA (33% versus 47%) and math (25% versus 40%); its all-grade math result is only 2 points below its district, compared with 19 points below the state. The clearest subject weakness is eighth-grade science: 12% proficient, 29 points below the state and 24 points below Huron. Sixth-grade results are also much lower than Huron’s, by 26 points in ELA and 24 in math.

Results over time are mixed: ELA rose 2 points from 2022–2023 to 2025–2026, while math fell 10 points and eighth-grade science fell 19 points; the state gaps widened in math and science. SchoolDigger places the school at the 13th percentile with one star, down 15 percentile points from the prior year; Huron is at the 38th percentile with two stars. The 2024–2025 student-teacher ratio is lower than Huron’s (13.1 versus 16.2), and free/reduced lunch eligible was 32% that year, compared with 69% at Huron—context, not an explanation for results. SchoolDigger’s Male Students ranking fell 35 percentile points across three years, to the 6th percentile in 2025–2026; its Hispanic Students ranking was notably higher than the school overall in 2024–2025, at the 55th versus 28th percentile.