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Public Schools in South Dakota

698 schools · 150 districts · 141,446 students

56%
Average
Avg Proficiency
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Largest Schools in South Dakota

School data sourced from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) via the Common Core of Data.

Washington High School - 01

Sioux Falls

1,910 students

Lincoln High School - 02

Sioux Falls

1,883 students

Central High School - 41

Rapid City

1,768 students

Jefferson High School - 67

Sioux Falls

1,749 students

Roosevelt High School - 03

Sioux Falls

1,713 students

Stevens High School - 42

Rapid City

1,686 students

Harrisburg High School - 01

Harrisburg

1,613 students

Central High School - 01

Aberdeen

1,388 students

Brandon Valley High School - 01

Brandon

1,345 students

Watertown High School - 01

Watertown

1,220 students

Frequently Asked Questions

South Dakota has 698 public schools across 150 districts, serving 141,446 students.

The largest school in South Dakota is Washington High School - 01 with 1,910 students. South Dakota has 698 public schools overall.

The average proficiency rate is 56%. Proficiency rates measure the percentage of students meeting state standards on standardized assessments, as reported by EDFacts.

All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data for enrollment and school characteristics, and EDFacts for proficiency rates and graduation rates.

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School data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments. No synthetic scores are used.

For this entity, the underlying data on this page comes from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. The breakdown above is the federal record; the paragraphs below add the per-entity context that makes the headline numbers usable for a real decision rather than just a data lookup.

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.