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South Dakota Has 1.10 Kindergartners for Every Senior
South Dakota's 12th grade class just set a record. At 9,964 students, the class of 2025 is the largest in the state's data history, 14.5% bigger than the 8,703 seniors in 2008-09. In any other context...
South Dakota Schools Lost 13 Points of White Share in 17 Years
In the 2007-08 school year, roughly 82 of every 100 students in South Dakota's public schools were white. By 2024-25, that figure had fallen to 69. The 13.2 percentage-point drop did not happen becaus...
Huron: 80% White to 38% in 17 Years
In 2008, four out of five students in the Huron School District were white. By 2025, white students were a 38.3% minority in their own schools, outnumbered by the combined enrollment of Hispanic and A...
South Dakota Gained Students During COVID. Now the Bill Is Coming Due.
Most states lost students during the pandemic. South Dakota added them.
Kindergarten Down 9% in Three Years
In 2013, South Dakota enrolled 141 kindergartners for every 100 high school seniors. The incoming class was so much larger than the outgoing one that total enrollment grew every year for more than a d...
One in 11 South Dakota Students Is Now Hispanic
In 2007-08, Hispanic students made up 2.7% of South Dakota's public school enrollment. One in 37 students. A rounding error in a state where white students held an 81.9% supermajority and Native Ameri...