Summary:
The 57564 zip code area is home to a single elementary school, Onida Elementary - 04, which serves students in the Agar-Blunt-Onida School District 58-3. While the district is ranked 20 out of 147 in South Dakota and has a 4-star rating, Onida Elementary - 04 has seen a decline in its statewide ranking over the past few years, dropping from 51st out of 204 schools in 2022-2023 to 128th out of 300 schools in 2024-2025.
Academically, Onida Elementary - 04 has mixed performance compared to the district and state averages. In 2024-2025, the school's English Language Arts proficiency rate was 52.38%, lower than the district's 63.56% and the state's 50.93%. Similarly, the school's Mathematics proficiency rate of 40.48% was below the district's 54.26% and the state's 43.49%. However, the school's 5th-grade Science proficiency rate of 76.92% was significantly higher than the state average of 40.54%.
Despite these academic challenges, Onida Elementary - 04 has a relatively low percentage of free and reduced-price lunch recipients at 15.29% and invests heavily in its students, with a high per-student spending of $18,562 and a low student-teacher ratio of 9:1 for the 2023-2024 school year. However, the school's chronic absenteeism rate of 20.2% is higher than the state average, which could be a contributing factor to its academic performance and warrants further investigation.
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