Summary:
Zip code 57319 has one listed school, Bridgewater-Emery Elementary - 02, serving prekindergarten through grade 5 with 143 students. With no other listed school, there is no meaningful school-to-school comparison within the zip code. The most important finding is that in 2025–26 the school was above South Dakota in both all-grades subjects: ELA proficiency was 59% versus 49% statewide, and math was 64% versus 44%—a 10-point ELA lead and a 20-point math lead.
The strongest grade-level results were in fourth grade, while third-grade ELA was the clearest area below the state. Fourth-grade ELA was 73% compared with 48% statewide, 25 points higher; fourth-grade math was 73% versus 49%, 24 points higher. Fifth-grade math was also strong at 65% versus 43%, a 22-point advantage. By contrast, third-grade ELA was 38% versus 43% statewide, 5 points lower. These differences show why the all-grades results do not tell the whole story: performance varied by grade, especially in ELA.
Results over time are mixed: the school’s ELA lead over the state widened by 1 point from 2024–25 to 2025–26, while its math lead narrowed by 11 points. Fifth-grade science improved from 43% to 47%, and its state advantage grew by 3 points. SchoolDigger’s school ranking moved from the 93rd percentile in 2023–24 to the 75th percentile in 2025–26, an 18-point decline; that ranking is separate from test-score trends. SchoolDigger rates Bridgewater-Emery 30-3 four stars and ranks it 26th of 126 South Dakota districts. For context, the school’s student–teacher ratio was 11.7 in 2024–25, and 31% of students were reported as free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism in 2025–26 was 10% at the school, below the district’s 16% and the state’s 20%.
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