Summary:
ZIP code 57763 has one middle school, Oelrichs Junior High - 03, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 25 students. In 2025–2026, its English Language Arts (ELA) proficiency was 18%, compared with 49% statewide and 23% in the Oelrichs School District 23-3. The most important finding is that the school’s ELA result remains 31 percentage points below the state, despite improvement from the prior year.
There is no local top or bottom school to compare: Oelrichs Junior High - 03 is the only school represented. SchoolDigger ranked it 227th of 246 schools, at the 8th percentile, with 0 stars in 2024–2025. Its available proficiency results are below state figures: in 2024–2025, 6% were proficient in math, versus 43% statewide, a 38-point gap; ELA was 11%, versus 51% statewide, a 40-point gap. Chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 was 63%, lower than the district’s 71% but above the state’s 20%.
ELA is improving: the school’s result rose from 11% in 2024–2025 to 18% in 2025–2026, a 7-point increase, while the state result fell by 2 points; the school’s gap to the state narrowed by 8 points. SchoolDigger’s earlier rankings were 136th of 147 (7th percentile) in 2017–2018 and 144th of 149 (3rd percentile) in 2018–2019, also with 0 stars; the number of schools ranked varied by year. The student-teacher ratio was 8.8 in 2024–2025, and the low-income measure that year was Community Eligibility (CEP), meaning all students receive free meals. Because this is the only local school and enrollment is 25, there are no local peers for comparison; 2025–2026 math results are suppressed, so a current math comparison is unavailable.
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