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Best Public Schools in Zip Code 57641


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3
Schools
129
Students
Top rankedMcIntosh Middle School - 03136th of 151 South Dakota middle schools
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Biggest riser
McIntosh Middle School - 03 up 47 spots statewide this year
Summary:

Schools in ZIP code 57641 are three schools in McIntosh School District 15-1, serving prekindergarten through grade 12: elementary grades PK–4, middle grades 5–8, and high school grades 9–12. Enrollment is very similar, from 42 to 44 students per school. The clearest current academic concern is at McIntosh Middle School - 03: in 2025–2026, its all-grades proficiency was below the state in ELA, math, and science, with gaps of 29, 28, and 24 percentage points, respectively.

No school stands out as the top performer on every measure: McIntosh High School - 01 has the strongest SchoolDigger ranking trend, while middle-school science is its strongest subject relative to the state. The high school rose from the 28th statewide percentile in 2022–2023 to the 61st in 2024–2025; its 2025–2026 graduation rate was 90%, compared with 88% statewide. Its dropout rate, however, was 7%, versus 2% statewide. The elementary school’s reported results were low: in 2025–2026, grade 4 proficiency was 10% in both ELA and math, compared with 48% and 49% statewide. These school and grade comparisons are not like-for-like, since the schools serve different age groups.

Middle-school proficiency declined in all three subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA fell 11 percentage points, math 6, and science 19. Its average gap to the state widened from 16 to 27 percentage points. SchoolDigger’s middle-school percentile also moved from 26 in 2024–2025 to 10 in 2025–2026; the elementary school’s percentile was 4 in 2024–2025, down from 35 in 2020–2021. Student-teacher ratios in 2024–2025 ranged from 4.4 at the high school to 9.9 at the middle school. All three schools reported “All students receive free meals” (Community Eligibility) for school year 2024–2025. Some test results are suppressed, and the available results cover few years.

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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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