Sd Sch for the Blind & Visually Impaired operates 2 public schools serving 20 students, placing it among the smallest districts in South Dakota. The school portfolio breaks down into 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 Brown County.
a 9.5:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 62.8% White, 5.5% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Sdsbvi Elementary - 01, enrolling 10 students (53% of the district's total enrollment).
Sdsbvi Elementary - 01 accounts for 50.0% of all Sd Sch for the Blind & Visually Impaired student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Sd Sch for the Blind & Visually Impaired a distant remainder — means Sd Sch for the Blind & Visually Impaired-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Sd Sch for the Blind & Visually Impaired student-counselor ratio is 10:1 — 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.
Comparisons are relative to Sd Sch for the Blind & Visually Impaired's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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