School Report Card Data released by Department of Education
School Report Card Data released by Department of Education
The South Dakota Department of Education (DOE) released its 2024-25 report card recently. The report card showed modest improvements in overall academic achievements for the year.
“We should celebrate the students who have demonstrated their mastery over a grade-level body of knowledge and readiness to move on to more advanced concepts, showing they are on track for college and career-level content,” said Dr. Joseph Graves, secretary of education. “That said, we know more remains to be done.”
According to a statement issued by Laura Scheibe, deputy secretary of education, the DOE expects English Language Arts (ELA) proficiencies to improve in a more dramatic fashion over the next few years as the “science of reading” is restored in elementary schools. This free training to kindergarten through 12th grade teachers has been being incorporated into their programs.
Also, new math studies that are now under consideration, have the potential to produce positive effects in numeracy.
The percentage of students performing at grade level on ELA again rose one additional point, reaching 52 percent. In math, the percent of students at grade level remained at 44. Notably, the percent of students meeting growth targets rose from 54 to 56 percent in ELA and from 50 to 51 percent in math.
A notable bright spot is graduation rates, which rose two points to 86 percent, the highest rate in ten years. This was buoyed by a five percentage point increase in the rate for Native American students, the highest rate in five years.
Milbank School District
The report indicates that the Milbank School District, with 971 students, is 79.4 percent caucasian, 15.1 percent Hispanic, 2.9 percent two or more races, 1.5 percent American Indian and less than one percent each Asian or Black. Those needing additional serves include 32.3 percent economically disadvantaged, 17 percent students with disabilities, 10 percent English learners, 2.3 percent migrant and less than one percent each, foster care or homeless. Milbank’s student performance was ranked 66 percent in English language arts, 53 percent in mathematics and 55 percent in science. Student progress showed as 65 percent in English language arts, 53 percent in mathematics and 49 percent for English learners on track. Milbank showed a high school completion rate of 100 percent and 81 percent in college and career readiness. Milbank’s attendance rate was 96 percent while chronic absenteeism was at 8 percent.
Wilmot School District
The report indicates that the Wilmot School District, with 221 students, is 72.9 percent caucasian, 19.5 percent American Indian, 3.6 percent two or more races, 2.7 percent Hispanic, and 1.4 percent Black. Those needing additional serves include 52.5 percent economically disadvantaged, 21.7 percent students with disabilities, 1.8 percent English learners, and 1.3 percent military connected. Wilmot student performance was ranked 39 percent in English language arts, 26 percent in mathematics and 32 percent in science. Student progress showed as 49 percent in English language arts and 40 percent in mathematics. Wilmot showed a high school completion rate of 100 percent and 43 percent in college and career readiness. Wilmot’s attendance rate was 94 percent while chronic absenteeism was at 13 percent.
Waverly/South Shore
School District
The report indicates that the Waverly/South Shore School District, with 263 students, is 88.6 percent caucasian, 4.9 percent American Indian, 3.8 percent two or more races, 2.3 percent Hispanic, and 0.4 percent Black. Those needing additional serves include 38.8 percent economically disadvantaged, 20.2 percent students with disabilities, 2.6 in foster care, and 0.4 percent English learners. Waverly/ South Shore student performance was ranked 38 percent in English language arts, 28 percent in mathematics and 38 percent in science. Student progress showed as 55 percent in English language arts and 35 percent in mathematics. Waverly/ South Shore showed a high school completion rate of 92 percent and 43 percent in college and career readiness. Waverly/South Shore attendance rate was 95 percent while chronic absenteeism was at 11 percent.
Summit School District
The report indicates that the Summit School District, with 172 students, is 57 percent caucasian, 23.8 percent American Indian, 9.9 percent two or more races, 7 percent Hispanic, and 2.3 percent Black. Those needing additional serves include 48.3 percent economically disadvantaged, 25 percent students with disabilities, 4.7 percent English learners, 1.7 percent migrant, 0.6 in foster care. Summit’s student performance was ranked 28 percent in English language arts, 20 percent in mathematics and 26 percent in science. Student progress showed as 41 percent in English language arts and 28 percent in mathematics. Summit showed 54 percent in college and career readiness. Summit’s attendance rate was 79 percent while chronic absenteeism was at 29 percent.
State of South Dakota
Cumulative Reports
The statewide percentages that each school is compared against are as follows:
Student performance for English language arts 52 percent, mathematics is 44 percent and science is 44 percent. Student progress was 56 percent in English language arts, 51 percent in mathematics and 35 percent in English learners on track.
The high school completion rate statewide is 91 percent and college and career readiness is 55 percent.
Those wishing to delve further into the reports may do so at https://sdschools.sd.gov
