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Mitchell School District 17-2

Mitchell, South Dakota · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

2,619
Students enrolled
9
Public schools
195
Classroom teachers (FTE)
13.4:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

  • Kindergarten 217
  • Grade 1 171
  • Grade 2 178
  • Grade 3 192
  • Grade 4 191
  • Grade 5 176
  • Grade 6 189
  • Grade 7 203
  • Grade 8 211
  • Grade 9 223
  • Grade 10 220
  • Grade 11 212
  • Grade 12 236

By race/ethnicity

  • White 77%
  • Hispanic/Latino 11%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native 7%
  • Two or more races 4%
  • Asian <1%
  • Black or African American <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

39% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 1,024 of 2,595 students in the 7 of its 9 schools that report
  • Free lunch 33%
  • Reduced-price lunch 7%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$12,703 spent per student on day-to-day operations South Dakota median: $13,757 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $8,299
  • Support services $3,765
  • Other (food service, etc.) $639

Where the money comes from

  • Local 48%
  • State 35%
  • Federal 16%

Total revenue $39.7 milliontotal spending $63.8 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

KG to 12

Locale (NCES)

Town: RemoteStudents: 99% town, 1% rural

Total staff (FTE)

391

District office

800 W 10th Ave, Mitchell SD 57301

County

Davison County

Official website

NCES District ID

4648390

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About Mitchell School District 17-2

Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.

The mission of the Mitchell School District is to offer a well-rounded educational program with emphasis on reading, writing, mathematics, science, communication, and technology. The Mitchell School District believes that people are society's most valuable resource. We further believe in the supreme worth, dignity and unique qualities of each individual. It is the ultimate purpose of the educational process in the Mitchell School District to prepare each student to accept responsibilities to self, community, country, and thus to become a contributing member to our changing society. It is our philosophy that we can attain this educational result through a joint effort of student, parents, staff and community.
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