Public school / Middle
Sturgis Williams Middle School - 02
Sturgis, South Dakota
- NCES ID
- 466993000653
- District
- Meade School District 46-1
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Sturgis Williams Middle School - 02 is a public middle school in Sturgis, South Dakota, run by Meade School District 46-1. It enrols 489 students — the 38599th 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
489
Teachers
33.0
Students per teacher
14.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
30.1%
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 Meade School District 46-1
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.
- 1Sturgis Brown High School - 01842 students
- 2Sturgis Elementary - 03552 students
- 3Piedmont Valley Elementary - 05523 students
- 4Sturgis Williams Middle School - 02489 students
- 5Stagebarn Middle School - 10457 students
- 6Whitewood Elementary - 04109 students
- 7Central Meade County School - 0956 students
- 8Opal Elementary - 1514 students
- Enrollment+240.8%
- Teachers+266.7%
- Students per teacher+11.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+12.7%
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