Leola, SD schools
Kids attend Leola Elementary - 02 through grade 5, then Leola Jr. High - 03 and Leola High School - 01.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Leola’s School Grade: B
The public schools Leola’s kids attend outperform 60% of South Dakota’s districts on state tests. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
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.
Where Leola kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
State test results
The district serving Leola
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near Leola
There’s no college in Leola, but 2 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Trinity Bible College and Graduate School in Ellendale, 28 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Leola. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus.
All 4 schools in Leola
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.