Summary:
Zip code 57057 has one listed middle school, Oldham-Ramona-Rutland Junior High, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 41 students. Its results describe this school alone, rather than a range of schools across the area. In 2025–2026, its all-grades English language arts (ELA) result was essentially at the South Dakota level, but math and especially eighth-grade science were notably lower; science was the clearest gap.
Because it is the only school listed, Oldham-Ramona-Rutland Junior High is both the highest- and lowest-scoring school in this list; that does not show how it compares with other area schools. Against state results in 2025–2026, its ELA proficiency was 48.6% versus 49.1%—less than a point lower—while math was 31% versus 44%, a 12-point gap. Eighth-grade science was 21% versus 41%, a 19-point gap. The school was above the Oldham-Ramona-Rutland School District 39-6 in all-grades ELA by 9 points and essentially level in math.
ELA and math improved year over year, while eighth-grade science fell: ELA rose from 41% to 49% and math from 17% to 31%, narrowing their state gaps from 9 to less than 1 point and from 26 to 12 points, respectively. Science dropped from 42% to 21%, and its gap with the state widened by 18 points. SchoolDigger reports a 2025–2026 ranking of 113 of 151, in the 25th percentile with 1 star, compared with 173 of 246, in the 30th percentile with 2 stars in 2024–2025; the ranking totals differ, but percentile and stars both declined. Other context: the student–teacher ratio was 8.1 in 2024–2025, and 20% were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. These figures do not establish what explains the school’s results.
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