Summary:
Zip code 57523 has one elementary school, Burke Elementary - 02, serving prekindergarten through grade 5 and enrolling 105 students. The available figures describe a single school, not a set of schools that can be ranked against one another. The most important finding is that Burke’s 2025–2026 results were above South Dakota’s in every supplied subject and grade comparison.
Burke Elementary - 02 is both the only possible local leader and the only possible local trailer, so there is no within-area top-to-bottom comparison. Against the state, its biggest all-grades advantage was in mathematics: 70% met the measure, compared with 44% statewide, a 26-point lead. In ELA, the results were 64% versus 49%, a 15-point lead; grade 5 science was 47% versus 41%, a 6-point lead. Burke was also above state results in each supplied grade 3–5 ELA and math comparison, though grade 4 was a relative softer spot: its advantage was 6 points in ELA and 13 points in math.
ELA and math scores declined from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while science improved. All-grades ELA fell from 73% to 64%, and its state lead narrowed by 7 points; math fell from 75% to 70%, with its lead narrowing by 5 points. Grade 5 science rose from 29% to 47%, changing from 12 points below the state to 6 points above it. Context figures include a student-teacher ratio of 11.2 in 2024–2025 and 37% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 5% at Burke, versus 7% in the Burke School District 26-2 and 20% statewide. SchoolDigger rates the district 4 stars and ranks it 36th of 126, at the 71st percentile.
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