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Public school / Middle

Harding County Middle School - 03

Buffalo, South Dakota

NCES ID
460930000887
District
Harding County School District 31-1
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Harding County Middle School - 03 is a public middle school in Buffalo, South Dakota, run by Harding County School District 31-1. It enrols 60 students — the 90774th 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

60students

90774th nationally, tied with 86

Teachers

3.0FTE

91789th nationally, tied with 1,029

Students per teacher

20.0students

78679th nationally, tied with 354

Free or reduced-price lunch

28.3%percent

70965th nationally, tied with 70

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 Harding County School District 31-1

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
  1. 1Buffalo Elementary - 0292 students
  2. 2Harding County Middle School - 0360 students
  3. 3Harding County High School - 0156 students
  4. 4Camp Crook Elementary - 088 students
  5. 5Ludlow Elementary - 068 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment−58.2%
  • Teachers−66.7%
  • Students per teacher+50.4%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+6.0%
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Where this sits

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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.