Summary:
Zip code 57472 has one elementary school, Selby Elementary - 02, serving prekindergarten through grade 5, with 93 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grades results were above South Dakota’s in ELA (57% versus 49%) and math (45% versus 44%). The most important contrast is that these overall results mask a steep grade 5 drop: Selby was above the state in both subjects in grades 3 and 4, but below it in grade 5 in ELA, math, and science.
Selby is the only local school, so there is no within-zip-code school ranking; its strongest and weakest results are across grades. Grade 3 ELA was 27 percentage points above the state, and grade 4 ELA was 21 points above. In math, grades 3 and 4 were each 8 points above the state. By contrast, grade 5 was 14 points below the state in ELA, 18 points below in math, and 10 points below in science. The reported all-grades ELA result was also 5 points below the Selby Area School District 62-5, while all-grades math was slightly above the district.
Selby’s all-grades advantage over the state narrowed from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: in ELA, from 15 percentage points to 8, and in math, from 18 points to 1. Grade 5 science also shifted from 9 points above the state in 2024–2025 to 10 points below in 2025–2026. SchoolDigger lists Selby at rank 116 of 203 schools, percentile 43, and 2 stars for 2025–2026, compared with rank 57 of 300, percentile 81, and 4 stars the prior year. Context measures include a 10.8 student–teacher ratio and 22% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; chronic absenteeism was 7% in 2025–2026, below the district’s 11% and the state’s 20%. These are observations, not explanations for the score patterns.
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