Best Public Schools in Zip Code 57022

ZIP code 57022 has three schools in one district, serving grades K–12: Dell Rapids Elementary (K–4), Dell Rapids Middle (5–8), and Dell Rapids High (9–12); the clearest overall finding is that elementary and middle school results are above state proficiency rates in nearly all reported comparisons, with math the strongest shared area.

Dell Rapids Elementary stands out in all-grade math: 80% proficient, 36 percentage points above the state and 17 points above the middle school’s 63%. In all-grade ELA, Dell Rapids Middle leads the elementary school, 61% to 58%, and is 12 points above the state. Middle school grade 7 is especially strong, with 74% proficient in ELA and 65% in math—about 21 points above state rates in both. Its grade 5 science result is a notable exception: 33%, 8 points below the state. Dell Rapids High is above state rates in all three reported ACT subjects, by 16 points in ELA, 7 in math, and 9 in science; its graduation rate is 95%, 7 points above the state.

Across the five comparable all-grade elementary and middle results, four school–state margins narrowed from 2024–25 to 2025–26; elementary math was the exception, improving by 4 points, while middle science fell by 17 points and its margin over the state narrowed by 16. SchoolDigger ranks all three above the state midpoint in 2025–26: Middle is 9th of 151, Elementary 20th of 203, and High 24th of 130. The high school’s SchoolDigger percentile rose from 28th in 2023–24 to 82nd in 2025–26, while the other schools remain highly ranked. Student-teacher ratios range from 12.9 at Elementary to 16.1 at Middle and 16.3 at High; all report free/reduced lunch eligible (FRL), 2024–25, at 13%, 16%, and 17%, respectively. The high school’s assessment changed between years, so its results do not establish a test-score trend or a direct comparison with the other schools.