Schools · Colton

Colton, SD schools

Kids attend Tri-Valley Elementary in Crooks - 04 or Tri-Valley Elementary in Colton - 02 through grade 4, then Tri-Valley Intermediate School - 03.

Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.

CSchool Grade

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Colton’s School Grade: C

The public schools Colton’s kids attend trail 73% of South Dakota’s districts on state tests. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.

CTest scores

South Dakota school districts we grade (146)Better than 27%

Lower resultsHigher results

South Dakota towns with similar household incomes (343)Better than 25%

High confidence. Built on 543 tested students; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.

How the School Grade works

Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on South Dakota’s state tests, each against the state average. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each.
Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of South Dakota only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in South Dakota with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.

School path

Where Colton kids go to school

Grades K–4

Tri-Valley Elementary in Crooks - 04 or CTri-Valley Elementary in Colton - 02 Depends on your address Tri-Valley School District 49-6

Grades 5–8

BTri-Valley Intermediate School - 03 296 students · Colton Tri-Valley School District 49-6

Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.

Test scores · 2020–21

State test results

Math (grades K–8, Tri-Valley School District 49-6)34%

State average 42.2%

Graduation · class of 2020

95% graduate on time

Graduation rate

95%

SD: 84.5%

Graduating class

students

The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.

Districts

The district serving Colton

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Tri-Valley School District 49-6Grades K–12 · 4 schools · 952 students

$12,899 per studentSD $13,040C

Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.

Within reach

Colleges near Colton

There’s no college in Colton, but 5 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Southeast Technical College in Sioux Falls, 16.7 miles away.

Southeast Technical CollegeCommunity college · Public · Sioux Falls16.7 mi1,963 students Dakota State UniversityUniversity or college · Public · Madison18.1 mi1,489 students University of Sioux FallsUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Sioux Falls20.1 mi1,390 students Augustana UniversityUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Sioux Falls20.5 mi2,056 students

Kairos UniversityUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Sioux Falls20.5 mi96 students

Straight-line distance from the center of Colton. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Colleges marked › have their own page; the others are too small or don’t report enough to the Department of Education for one.

We don’t have any schools located in Colton yet.