McCook Central High School - 01
Salem, SD · High School · Grades 9-12
McCook Central High School - 01 is a high school in Salem, SD with 128 students enrolled and a 73% proficiency rate. Part of McCook Central School District 43-7. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
McCook Central High School - 01 is a high school located in Salem, South Dakota. The school serves 128 students in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 16.0:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 73% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading. The school reports a 92% graduation rate.
16% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
McCook Central High School - 01 is part of the McCook Central School District 43-7 in South Dakota.
How This School Compares
McCook Central High School - 01 has 128 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in McCook Central School District 43-7 (109 students). Its 73% proficiency rate is 7 percentage points above the district average of 65%. Compared to the South Dakota state average of 56%, the school performs 16 points higher.
Frequently Asked Questions
McCook Central High School - 01 has 128 students enrolled in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 16.0:1.
According to EDFacts data, 73% of students at McCook Central High School - 01 meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
McCook Central High School - 01 has a 92% graduation rate, measuring the percentage of students who graduate within four years.
McCook Central High School - 01 is part of the McCook Central School District 43-7 in Salem, South Dakota. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.