Summary:
Zip code 57658 has one middle school, Wakpala Middle School - 04, serving grades 6–8 with 41 students. Its latest results are below state averages in every reported subject: 20% of students were proficient in all-grade ELA and mathematics, compared with 49% statewide in ELA and 44% in mathematics; eighth-grade science was 19%, versus 41% statewide. The most important finding for families is that Wakpala’s latest test results fall substantially below state levels across all three subjects.
There is no school-to-school leader or trailer because Wakpala is the only school listed. SchoolDigger ranks it near the bottom statewide: 142 of 151 schools, in the 6th percentile, with 0 stars in 2025–2026; its prior listing was 185 of 246, in the 25th percentile, with 1 star, though the number of schools ranked differs. Results vary by grade: sixth-grade ELA was the lowest, at 8%, or 40 points below the state; eighth-grade mathematics was closest to its state benchmark, at 25%, or 18 points below. Every reported grade-level result was below its state comparison.
Wakpala’s trends differ by subject: all-grade ELA fell from 41% in 2024–2025 to 20% in 2025–2026, and its state gap widened by 20 points; mathematics rose from 15% to 20%, narrowing its state gap by 5 points. Eighth-grade science also improved, from 10% to 19%, narrowing its state gap by 11 points, though it remains below the state. For context, the school’s student-teacher ratio was 10.3 in 2024–2025, and 7% of students were directly certified for free meals that year. Chronic absenteeism was 29% in 2025–2026, 9 points above the state and 8 points below the district. With only 41 students, results may be sensitive to small changes in the number tested.
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