Summary:
ZIP code 57070 has one middle school, Viborg-Hurley Middle School - 03, serving grades 5–8, with 114 students and a 12:1 student-teacher ratio in 2024–2025. With no other middle schools in the area to compare, its results are best understood against South Dakota’s. In 2025–2026, the school was above the state in all three reported subjects, with its clearest advantage in mathematics.
Mathematics is the school’s strongest all-grades result: 52% of students were proficient, compared with 44% statewide, an 8-point advantage. ELA was 53% versus 49% statewide, a 4-point lead, while science was 44% versus 42%, a 1-point lead. Grade-level results show both stronger and weaker areas: sixth-grade mathematics was 61%, 19 points above the state, and fifth-grade mathematics was 58%, 15 points above. By contrast, eighth-grade mathematics was 35%, 8 points below the state; eighth-grade ELA was 45%, 7 points below. Seventh-grade ELA was also below the state, by 3 points.
Results have improved in mathematics and science but declined in ELA: mathematics rose 5 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, science rose 12 points, and ELA fell 5 points. The school’s average across the three subjects shifted from 1 point below the state average to 4 points above. SchoolDigger ranked the school at the 57th percentile in 2025–2026, compared with the 58th percentile the prior year and 28th percentile in 2023–2024. Chronic absenteeism was 5% in 2025–2026, below the Viborg-Hurley School District 60-6 rate of 12% and the state’s 20%. The school reported 34% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. Because this ZIP code has only one school, local school-to-school comparisons are not available.
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