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Public school / Primary

Willow Lake Elementary - 02

Willow Lake, South Dakota

NCES ID
467935000755
District
Willow Lake School District 12-3
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Willow Lake Elementary - 02 is a public primary school in Willow Lake, South Dakota, run by Willow Lake School District 12-3. It enrols 144 students — the 83370th 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

144students

83370th nationally, tied with 87

Teachers

9.0FTE

84650th nationally, tied with 1,296

Students per teacher

16.0students

56681st nationally, tied with 887

Free or reduced-price lunch

41.0%percent

59564th nationally, tied with 117

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 Willow Lake School District 12-3

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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Willow Lake Elementary - 02144 students
  2. 2Willow Lake Middle School - 0358 students
  3. 3Willow Lake High School - 0157 students
  4. 4Mayfield Colony Elementary - 0428 students
  5. 5Shamrock Colony Elementary - 0520 students
  6. 6Collins Colony Elementary - 0616 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment+0.3%
  • Teachers0.0%
  • Students per teacher+20.3%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+53.6%
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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.