Schools in Zip Code 57454

ZIP code 57454 has four schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12, with 258 students across the Langford Area School District 45-5; SchoolDigger ranks the district 27th of 126 in South Dakota and gives it four stars. The clearest concern is Newport Colony Elementary’s 2025–26 all-grades ELA result: 12%, compared with 49% statewide and 58% at Langford Area Elementary, a 46-point spread between the highest and lowest reported school results.

Langford Area Elementary stands out among the schools with current all-grades Smarter Balanced results, with 58% in ELA and 60% in math—9 and 16 points above the state, respectively. Langford Area Middle was also above the state in both subjects: 50% in ELA, 1 point above, and 52% in math, 8 points above. Newport Colony’s ELA result was 37 points below the state; its math result is suppressed and unknown. Separately, Langford Area High School’s 11th-grade ACT results were 73% in ELA, 60% in math and 53% in science, exceeding state results by 25, 26 and 8 points. SchoolDigger ranks the high school 9th of 130 schools, compared with 80th of 203 for the elementary school and 61st of 151 for the middle school.

Recent changes are mixed: elementary math rose 12 points from 2024–25 to 2025–26, while its ELA fell 11 points; middle school ELA and math each rose 7 points. Newport Colony ELA remained around 12% across those years. Grade-level results can differ sharply: middle-school seventh-grade ELA was 27%, 26 points below the state, while eighth-grade math was 60%, 17 points above. Staffing and income figures add context but do not explain results: the average student-teacher ratio was 14.3, ranging from 11.8 at the high school to 15.7 at Newport Colony. In 2024–25, free/reduced lunch eligible students ranged from 7% at Newport Colony to 43% at the middle school; Langford Area Elementary was at 36%.