Public school / Middle
Dakota Valley Middle School - 03
North Sioux City, South Dakota
- NCES ID
- 463699000809
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Dakota Valley Middle School - 03 is a public middle school in North Sioux City, South Dakota, run by Dakota Valley School District 61-8. It enrols 342 students — the 59616th largest of 763 public schools in South Dakota.
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
342
Teachers
18.0
Students per teacher
19.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
9.6%
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.
Within Dakota Valley School District 61-8
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.
- 1Dakota Valley High School - 01448 students
- 2Dakota Valley Elementary - 02365 students
- 3Dakota Valley Middle School - 03342 students
- 4Dakota Valley Upper Elementary - 04232 students
- Enrollment+138.3%
- Teachers+100.0%
- Students per teacher+42.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−64.0%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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