Public school / Primary
Hillcrest Colony Elementary - 05
Garden City, South Dakota
- NCES ID
- 461294001082
- District
- Clark School District 12-2
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Hillcrest Colony Elementary - 05 is a public primary school in Garden City, South Dakota, run by Clark School District 12-2. It enrols 29 students — the 93487th 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
29
Teachers
3.0
Students per teacher
9.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
89.7%
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 Clark School District 12-2
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.
- 1Clark Elementary - 02201 students
- 2Clark High School - 01102 students
- 3Clark Middle School - 0387 students
- 4Fordham Colony Elementary - 0437 students
- 5Hillcrest Colony Elementary - 0529 students
- 6Silver Lake Colony - 0726 students
- Enrollment−79.8%
- Teachers−66.7%
- Students per teacher−27.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+236.0%
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