Schools in Zip Code 57754

ZIP code 57754 has two schools in Lead: Lead-Deadwood Middle School, serving grades 6–8, and Lead-Deadwood High School, serving grades 9–12. Their reported results show different academic profiles. The high school’s 2025–26 grade-11 ACT proficiency was above state rates in all three subjects, while the middle school’s latest results were below state rates in its all-grade ELA and math and grade-8 science results. The clearest takeaway is that the high school’s latest scores are above state levels, while the middle school’s are generally below.

Lead-Deadwood High School stands out relative to the state: its ACT proficiency was 53% in ELA, 35% in math and 53% in science, respectively 4, 1 and 8 percentage points above state results. At Lead-Deadwood Middle School, all-grade proficiency was 39% in ELA and 36% in math—10 and 8 points below the state—and grade-8 science was 28%, 13 points below. The middle school’s seventh-grade ELA result was its sharpest weakness, 33% compared with 53% statewide, while sixth-grade math was an exception at 45%, 4 points above the state. Because the schools serve different grades and report different assessments, their results are not a direct head-to-head measure.

Middle-school results declined in matched year-to-year comparisons: all-grade ELA fell 4 percentage points, math fell 1 point, and grade-8 science fell 6 points; the gaps from the state widened by 2, 1 and 4 points, respectively. SchoolDigger’s percentile ranking rose from 38 to 64 for the high school between 2023–24 and 2025–26, while the middle school’s fell from 56 to 24; these rankings are not test-score trends, and the number of schools ranked varied. In 2024–25, the high school had 211 students, a 10.7 student–teacher ratio and 19% free/reduced lunch eligible; the middle school had 139 students, a 9.5 ratio and 25% free/reduced lunch eligible. The middle school also had 12% chronic absenteeism, below the state’s 20%.