Schools · White Butte
White Butte, SD schools
Kids attend Lemmon Elementary - 02 through grade 5, then Lemmon Jr. High - 06 and Lemmon High School - 01.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
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B
White Butte’s School Grade: B
The public schools White Butte’s kids attend outperform 60% of South Dakota’s districts on state tests.
BTest scores
South Dakota school districts we grade (146)Better than 60%
Lower resultsHigher results
Towns in Perkins County (40)Better than 63%
Lower confidence. Built on 144 tested students. With numbers this small, one year can move 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 White Butte kids go to school
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–12, Lemmon School District 52-4)47%
State average 42.2%
Graduation · class of 2020
90% graduate on time
Graduation rate
90%
SD: 84.5%
Graduating class
21
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.
Districts
The district serving White Butte
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
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