Schools · Pleasant Valley
Pleasant Valley, SD schools
Kids attend one of 4 schools through grade 8, then one of 4 middle schools and Wessington Springs High School - 01 or Plankinton High School - 01 or White Lake High School - 01.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
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B−
Pleasant Valley’s School Grade: B-
The public schools Pleasant Valley’s kids attend outperform 51% of South Dakota’s districts on state tests.
B-Test scores
South Dakota school districts we grade (146)Better than 51%
Lower resultsHigher results
Towns in Aurora County (20)Better than 25%
Good confidence. Built on 392 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 Pleasant Valley kids go to school
Grades 9–12
AWessington Springs High School - 01 or DPlankinton High School - 01 or B-White Lake High School - 01
Depends on your address Wessington Springs School District 36-2Based 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 PK–12, Wessington Springs School District 36-2)42%
State average 42.2%
Math (grades 8, Plankinton School District 01-1)52%
State average 42.2%
Math (White Lake School District 01-3)27%
State average 42.2%
Graduation · class of 2020
69% graduate on time
Graduation rate
69%
SD: 84.5%
Graduating class
25
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.
Districts
Three districts serve Pleasant Valley
Wessington Springs School District 36-2Grades PK–12 · 7 schools · 461 students
$12,273 per studentSD $13,040C+Plankinton School District 01-1Grades PK–12 · 7 schools · 291 students
$16,296 per studentSD $13,040B+White Lake School District 01-3Grades PK–12 · 3 schools · 125 students
$16,710 per studentSD $13,040DEach district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
We don’t have any schools located in Pleasant Valley yet.