Public school / Primary
Mount Vernon Elementary - 02
Mount Vernon, South Dakota
- NCES ID
- 464965000454
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Mount Vernon Elementary - 02 is a public primary school in Mount Vernon, South Dakota, run by Mount Vernon School District 17-3. It enrols 123 students — the 85279th 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
123
Teachers
10.0
Students per teacher
12.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
34.1%
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 Mount Vernon School District 17-3
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.
- 1Mount Vernon Elementary - 02123 students
- 2Mount Vernon High School- 0193 students
- 3Mount Vernon Middle School - 0357 students
- Enrollment−14.3%
- Teachers+11.1%
- Students per teacher−7.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+27.7%
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