Public school / Primary
Tea Area Legacy Elementary - 01
Tea, South Dakota
- NCES ID
- 460005200388
- District
- Tea Area School District 41-5
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Tea Area Legacy Elementary - 01 is a public primary school in Tea, South Dakota, run by Tea Area School District 41-5. It enrols 491 students — the 38360th 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
491
Teachers
30.0
Students per teacher
16.4
Free or reduced-price lunch
10.6%
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 Tea Area School District 41-5
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.
- 1Tea Area High School - 03610 students
- 2Tea Area Middle School - 02563 students
- 3Tea Area Legacy Elementary - 01491 students
- 4Tea Area Venture Elementary - 06389 students
- 5Tea Area Frontier Elementary - 05236 students
- 6Tea Area Preschool - 0773 students
- Enrollment+242.2%
- Teachers+233.3%
- Students per teacher+23.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−60.3%
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