NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools SD

Best-Resourced Schools in Tea, SD

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

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5
Schools
2,290
Students
37.2/100
Avg Resource Index
29.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Tea has more public-school enrollment than 17% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Tea's 5 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Tea's list includes 2 elementary, 1 middle, and 1 high-school campus, plus 1 combined-grade record. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 38-point gap between Tea Area Venture Elementary - 06 and Tea Area Preschool - 07 shows the range hidden by Tea's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 83%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
34th percentile
Teacher staffing
1st percentile

Tea Area High School - 03 accounts for 31.3% of all Tea public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Tea-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

Tea school enrollment varies 9.8× across entities

Tea school enrollment ranges from 73 students (lowest) to 717 students (highest), a spread of 644 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. 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

Tea operates one school district — a single-district system

Tea'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

Tea student-teacher ratio is 29.2:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)

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 Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Tea Area Venture Elementary - 06 53
2. Tea Area Middle School - 02 45
3. Tea Area Legacy Elementary - 01 38
4. Tea Area High School - 03 35
5. Tea Area Preschool - 07 15

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Tea

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 Tea Area Middle School - 02 34.4/100
  2. 2 Tea Area Venture Elementary - 06 32.1/100
  3. 3 Tea Area Legacy Elementary - 01 26.7/100
  4. 4 Tea Area High School - 03 26.4/100

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Which Tea school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Tea Area Venture Elementary - 06 has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Tea schools in this federal-data comparison at 53/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Tea, SD? ▼

Tea has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,290 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 29.2:1.

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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.