Bowdle Jr. High - 03

Bowdle, South Dakota

NCES ID: 460780000883
District: Bowdle School District 22-1
School type: Regular
Title I: Not designated

Bowdle Jr. High - 03 is a public middle school in Bowdle, South Dakota, run by Bowdle School District 22-1. It enrols 23 students — the 94061st largest of 763 public schools in South Dakota.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

23students

94061st nationally, tied with 103

Teachers

2.0FTE

92819th nationally, tied with 1,109

Students per teacher

11.5students

16979th nationally, tied with 676

Free or reduced-price lunch

47.8%percent

52776th nationally, tied with 116

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Bowdle School District 22-1

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district

Distance from the state median

Baseline: South Dakota median across 763 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

Enrollment−84.0%
Teachers−77.8%
Students per teacher−13.5%
Free or reduced-price lunch+79.0%

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Where this sits

Geographic context

District

Rankings

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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics: Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)
Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.