Summary:
High schools in ZIP code 57070 are represented by one school, Viborg-Hurley High School - 01, which serves grades 9–12 and enrolls 124 students. With only one school listed, there is no within-area comparison of schools. The most important finding is a consistent subject split: Viborg-Hurley’s English Language Arts results were above state results on both reported assessments, while its mathematics results were below.
Viborg-Hurley stands out most positively in English Language Arts and most negatively in mathematics. On the 2025–2026 grade 11 SD ACT, 56% were proficient in ELA, 7 percentage points above the state’s 48%; in math, 21% were proficient, 13 points below the state’s 34%. On 2024–2025 Smarter Balanced results across all grades, ELA proficiency was 69%, 19 points above the state’s 51%, while math was 22%, 21 points below the state’s 43%. Science was less consistent: the school was 8 points above the state on the SD ACT, but 8 points below on Smarter Balanced. Its 2025–2026 graduation rate was 92%, compared with 88% statewide, while its 2% dropout rate matched the state. There is no second school in the ZIP code to identify as a local leader or laggard.
SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking moved upward, but that does not establish that test scores improved: the school rose from the 16th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 36th in 2024–2025 and the 50th in 2025–2026, while its star rating went from 1 to 3. The percentile increase from the first to last year was 34 points; the number of schools ranked differed across years. As context, the student-teacher ratio was 12.9 in 2024–2025, and 32% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. These figures describe the school and do not show why its results differ by subject.
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