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Aberdeen, South Dakota - 2 schools
20
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
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Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
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 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.
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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