Summary:
ZIP code 57783 has three Spearfish elementary schools serving 1,043 students: Mountain View Elementary - 08 serves kindergarten, West Elementary - 03 serves grades 1–2, and Creekside Elementary - 07 serves grades 3–5. Enrollment ranges from 168 at Mountain View to 553 at Creekside. The clearest achievement finding is that Creekside’s 2025–2026 results were above district and state results in both subjects: 58% in ELA versus 54% district and 49% state, and 61% in math versus 52% district and 44% state.
Creekside also stands out for the lowest chronic absenteeism: 9% in 2025–2026, compared with 12% at West and 16% at Mountain View, a 6-point gap between the highest and lowest rates. All three were below the 20% state rate, though Mountain View had the highest rate. West had the lowest 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible share, at 17%, and the lowest student-teacher ratio, 10.5; Mountain View’s figures were 21% and 11.7, while Creekside’s were 23% and 15.4. These are contextual differences, not evidence of what causes school results.
Creekside’s math proficiency rose from 52% in 2024–2025 to 61% in 2025–2026, while ELA edged up from 57% to 58%; its advantage over the state grew from 9 to 17 points in math and from 6 to 9 points in ELA. Grade 5 science moved in the opposite direction, falling from 51% to 47%, though it remained above the state. SchoolDigger lists Creekside at rank 56 of 203, the 72nd percentile, with 4 stars in 2025–2026, up from the 66th percentile and 3 stars. Because only Creekside has supplied test scores, these data cannot establish an achievement comparison across all three schools.
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