Public school / High
Falls Academy - 08
Hartford, South Dakota
- NCES ID
- 463171001389
- School type
- Alternative
- Title I
- Not designated
Falls Academy - 08 is a public high school in Hartford, South Dakota, run by West Central School District 49-7. It enrols 25 students — the 93863rd 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
25
Teachers
1.0
Students per teacher
25.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
12.0%
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 West Central School District 49-7
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.
- 1West Central High School - 01403 students
- 2West Central Humboldt Elementary - 02385 students
- 3West Central Middle School - 04303 students
- 4West Central Hartford Elementary - 05281 students
- 5Falls Academy - 0825 students
- 6Brighten Transition Youth Treatment Center - 0716 students
- Enrollment−82.6%
- Teachers−88.9%
- Students per teacher+88.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−55.1%
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