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Salem, South Dakota - 4 schools
An equity score of 37/100 ranks Mccook Central School District 43-7 #82 of 121 districts in South Dakota (state average 51). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $11,993 per pupil, Mccook Central School District 43-7 ranks #87 of 149 South Dakota districts by per-pupil spending (South Dakota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
434
Total Enrollment
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$11,993
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Mccook Central School District 43-7 operates 4 public schools serving 434 students, placing it among the smallest districts in South Dakota. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 elementary, 1 combined, 1 high 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 Mccook County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $11,993 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower 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 54.5% local, 30.5% state, and 15.1% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 37/100, ranked #82 of 121 in South Dakota against a state average of 51, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 4 schools offering Advanced Placement (1 AP courses district-wide), a 113.8:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 19.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 93.9% White, 2.5% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Mccook Central Middle School - 03, with a diversity index of 17.6/100.
Its largest campus is Mccook Central Elementary - 02, enrolling 225 students (49% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Goldenview Colony School - 04, at 28 students, a 8x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Mccook Central Elementary - 02 accounts for 49.5% of all Mccook Central School District 43-7 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Mccook Central School District 43-7 a distant remainder — means Mccook Central School District 43-7-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.
Mccook Central School District 43-7 school enrollment varies 8.0× across entities
Mccook Central School District 43-7 school enrollment ranges from 28 students (lowest) to 225 students (highest), a spread of 197 students. That spread reflects typical mixed-portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Mccook Central School District 43-7 student-counselor ratio is 114:1 — 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.
Mccook Central School District 43-7 chronic absenteeism rate is 19.9% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
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 Variation between sub-units within Mccook Central School District 43-7 is typically wider than the Mccook Central School District 43-7-aggregate figure suggests.
Comparisons are relative to Mccook Central School District 43-7's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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