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Kadoka, South Dakota - 6 schools
An equity score of 93/100 ranks Kadoka Area School District 35-2 #6 of 121 districts in South Dakota (state average 51). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $17,032 per pupil, Kadoka Area School District 35-2 ranks #22 of 149 South Dakota districts by per-pupil spending (South Dakota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
328
Total Enrollment
6
Schools
$17,032
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Kadoka Area School District 35-2 operates 6 public schools serving 328 students, placing it among the smallest districts in South Dakota. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 elementary, 1 combined, 1 high, 1 middle schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Jackson County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,032 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 149 South Dakota districts by per-pupil spending. See how South Dakota compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 32.8% local, 23.8% state, and 43.3% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 93/100, ranked #6 of 121 in South Dakota against a state average of 51, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 60:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 4.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 56.2% White, 1.4% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Kadoka Elementary - 02, with a diversity index of 50.7/100.
Its largest campus is Kadoka Elementary - 02, enrolling 118 students (42% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Midland Elementary - 11, at 6 students, a 20x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Kadoka Elementary - 02 accounts for 36.0% of all Kadoka Area School District 35-2 student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Kadoka Area School District 35-2-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Kadoka Area School District 35-2 school enrollment varies 20× across entities
Kadoka Area School District 35-2 school enrollment ranges from 6 students (lowest) to 118 students (highest), a spread of 112 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Kadoka Area School District 35-2 student-counselor ratio is 60:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Kadoka Area School District 35-2 chronic absenteeism rate is 4.7% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Comparisons are relative to Kadoka Area School District 35-2's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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