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Best Elementary Schools in Zip Code 57544

Summary:

The 57544 zip code area has only one elementary school, Lyman Elementary - 04, which serves grades PK-5 with 180 students. The school is part of the Lyman School District 42-1, which is ranked 87 out of 147 districts in South Dakota and has a 2-star rating from SchoolDigger.

Lyman Elementary - 04 has seen a decline in its statewide ranking over the past few years, going from 132nd out of 201 elementary schools in 2023-2024 to 168th out of 300 in 2024-2025. The school has a high chronic absenteeism rate of 20.2% in the 2024-2025 school year, and its academic performance lags behind the state averages in both English Language Arts and Mathematics proficiency across all grade levels. For example, in 2024-2025, the school's ELA proficiency rate was 39.19% compared to the state average of 50.93%, and its Math proficiency rate was 55.4% compared to the state's 43.49%. The school's 5th-grade Science proficiency rate is also significantly lower than the state average, at 18.52% vs. 40.54%.

Despite the higher per-student spending of $16,139 and the relatively low student-teacher ratio of 9.5 to 1, Lyman Elementary - 04's academic performance does not seem to be commensurate with the additional resources, suggesting that there may be other factors at play that are impacting student learning. The school's high percentage of students (40%) receiving free or reduced-price lunch indicates a relatively high level of economic disadvantage among the student population, which could be a contributing factor to the school's challenges.

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Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score ()	Statewide Rank ()	State Percentile ()	SchoolDigger Rating ()	Average Standard Score ()	Statewide Rank ()	State Percentile ()	Rank Change from Previous Year

Cities Near Zip Code 57544

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Kennebec	0.9 mi	1	124^th
Presho	10.84 mi	2	113^th
Lower Brule	18.37 mi	1
Chamberlain	26.05 mi	4	143^rd
Stephan	31.29 mi	2

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the South Dakota Department of Education.

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