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Best Middle Schools in Zip Code 57601

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At a glance

School

110

Students

Top rankedMobridge Middle School - 0253^rd of 151 South Dakota middle schools

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Biggest riser

Mobridge Middle School - 02 up 44 spots statewide this year

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Summary:

ZIP code 57601 has one middle school, Mobridge Middle School - 02, serving grades 6–8 with 110 students. With no other middle schools in the area, families have no school-to-school comparison; the clearest standout is ELA, where the school’s 2025–2026 proficiency rate was 63%, compared with 49% statewide—a 14-percentage-point advantage.

Mobridge Middle School - 02 is strongest against the state in ELA and 8th-grade science, while math is its relative weakness. In 2025–2026, science proficiency in 8th grade was 51%, 11 points above the state’s 41%; all-grades math was 42%, 2 points below the state’s 44%. ELA exceeded the state in each grade: by 9 points in 6th, 15 in 7th, and 13 in 8th. Math was much closer to state results by grade, including an 8th-grade result just 0 points above the state after rounding.

Results improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: all-grades ELA rose 5 points to 63%, math rose 4 points to 42%, and 8th-grade science rose 8 points to 51%. The school’s math shortfall relative to the state narrowed by 4 points, while its ELA advantage widened by 6 points. SchoolDigger ranked the school 53rd of 151 statewide in 2025–2026, at the 65th percentile with 3 stars; its reported percentile rose from 44th in 2023–2024 to 61st in 2024–2025 and 65th in 2025–2026. As context, the school’s 2024–2025 student-teacher ratio was 13.6:1, and 42% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism was 19% in 2025–2026, about 1 point below the state rate.

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Ranking:

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2026)				Ranking (2025)				Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts (2026)				Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics (2026)				Smarter Balanced Assessments Science (2026)	Per Pupil Expenditures (2025)
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/reduced lunch (2024-25)	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2026)	Statewide Rank (2026)	State Percentile (2026)	SchoolDigger Rating (2026)	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	Rank Change from Previous Year	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts 6th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts 7th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts 8th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts All Grades	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 6th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 7th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 8th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics All Grades	Smarter Balanced Assessments Science 8th Grade	Per Pupil Expenditures Total	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Sub-total from State/Local Funds
Mobridge Middle School - 02	Public	6-8	1107 1st Ave E	Mobridge	57601	Walworth County	Mobridge-Pollock School District 62-6	(n/a)	(n/a)	No	Yes	(605) 845-9210	110	8	13.6	41.8%	62 (56.4%)	2 (1.8%)	3 (2.7%)	1 (0.9%)	39 (35.5%)	0 (0.0%)	3 (2.7%)	64.6	53^rd of 151 public middle schools	64.9%		59.7	97^th of 246 public middle schools	60.6%	44	57.2	68.3	64.9	63.0	40.8	41.5	43.2	41.7	51.4	$11,747	$1,513	$10,234

Cities Near Zip Code 57601

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Mobridge	0.06 mi	4	65^th
Wakpala	7.49 mi	3	175^th
Selby	19.41 mi	3	27^th
Little Eagle	20.54 mi	1
Mc Laughlin	26.28 mi	3	193^rd

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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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