NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools SD

Best-Resourced Schools in Huron, SD

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9 public K-12 schools in Huron from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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9
Schools
3,025
Students
36.2/100
Avg Resource Index
15.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Huron has more public-school enrollment than 29% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Huron's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

5 of Huron's 9 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Huron lists only 9 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 6 to 852 students, a 142-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 71%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
30th percentile
Teacher staffing
46th percentile

Huron High School - 01 accounts for 28.2% of all Huron public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Huron-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Huron school enrollment varies 142× across entities

Huron school enrollment ranges from 6 students (lowest) to 852 students (highest), a spread of 846 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Huron operates one school district — a single-district system

Huron's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Huron student-teacher ratio is 15.7:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Huron is typically wider than the Huron-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Huron Colony Elementary - 13 55
2. Our Home Rediscovery - 77 53
3. Our Home Asap - 12 42
4. Riverside Colony Elementary - 15 41
5. Madison 2-3 Center - 19 34
6. Washington 4-5 Center - 20 29
7. Buchanan K-1 Center - 18 26
8. Huron High School - 01 25
9. Huron Middle School - 02 21

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Huron

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Washington 4-5 Center - 20 70.0/100
  2. 2 Huron Middle School - 02 69.5/100
  3. 3 Buchanan K-1 Center - 18 68.0/100
  4. 4 Madison 2-3 Center - 19 67.7/100
  5. 5 Huron High School - 01 67.2/100

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Which Huron school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Huron Colony Elementary - 13 has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Huron schools in this federal-data comparison at 55/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Huron, SD? ▼

Huron has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,025 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.7:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.