Summary:
The 57078 zip code in South Dakota is home to a single middle school, Yankton Middle School - 02, which serves grades 6-8. The school has maintained a consistent 3-star rating from SchoolDigger over the past three school years, indicating a stable level of performance.
Yankton Middle School - 02 has generally higher proficiency rates in English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics compared to the state averages, but lower than the Yankton School District 63-3 averages. The school's 8th-grade Science proficiency rate was 55.38% in 2024-2025, higher than the state average of 42.51%. However, the school's chronic absenteeism rate of 20.2% in 2024-2025 is relatively high, which could be a contributing factor to its academic performance and an area for further improvement.
The school has a student population of 613 and a free and reduced-price lunch rate of 37.19%, indicating a relatively high proportion of students from low-income families. The school's per-student spending for the 2023-2024 school year was $11,449, and its student-teacher ratio is 16.3, slightly lower than the national average. While the school is performing reasonably well compared to the state average, there is room for improvement to align with the higher-performing standards of the district, particularly in addressing factors such as chronic absenteeism and supporting students from low-income families.
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