Elementary · South Dakota
Northwestern Elementary - 04
Northwestern Elementary - 04, a public elementary school in Mellette, South Dakota: grades pre-k–5, 135 students, 14.0 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Northwestern Area School District 56-7.
Size and class size
Compared with elementary schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 135
- Teachers (FTE)
- 9.6
- Students per teacher
- 14.0
- Grades
- Pre-K–5
- Elementary
More students per teacher than 65% of elementary schools in South Dakota
Median 12.8 · 318 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 56% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Smaller than 54% of elementary schools in South Dakota
Median 150 · 319 schools compared
Smaller than 93% of elementary schools in the US
Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Elementary · Grades Pre-K–5
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- Some virtual classes
- Area
- Remote rural area
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Northwestern Area School District 56-7.
Location
- Address
- 221 3rd St, Mellette, SD 57461
- Phone
- (605)887-3467
- City or town
- Mellette
- County
- Spink County
Nearby elementary schools
The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| K–5 | 145 | 13.1 | |
| K–8 | 16 | 5.5 | |
| Pre-K–5 | 271 | 11.2 | |
| K–5 | 386 | 12.7 | |
| K–5 | 327 | 11.5 | |
SDSBVI Elementary - 01Special education | Pre-K–8 | 10 | 1.2 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
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NCES 465175000820