Middle · South Dakota
Spearfish Academy at Canyon Hills Elementary - 09
AlternativeSpearfish Academy at Canyon Hills Elementary - 09, a public middle school in Spearfish, South Dakota: grades 4–8, 2 students, 0.8 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Spearfish School District 40-2.
Size and class size
Compared with middle 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
- 2
- Teachers (FTE)
- 2.5
- Students per teacher
- 0.8
- Grades
- 4–8
- Middle
Fewer students per teacher than 99% of middle schools in South Dakota
Median 13.2 · 168 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 100% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Smaller than 99% of middle schools in South Dakota
Median 75 · 168 schools compared
Smaller than 100% of middle schools in the US
Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared
State test results
Share of students scoring proficient or above on South Dakota's tests, grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year.
Reading and writing
South Dakota: 49%Not published: too few students tested.
SBAC; proficient means Levels 3-4
Math
South Dakota: 45%Not published: too few students tested.
SBAC; proficient means Levels 3-4
Each state sets its own test and its own bar for “proficient”, so results compare only within a state. Results also follow family income closely: a school's share reflects its students' circumstances as much as its teaching.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
What it offers
- Grades
- Middle · Grades 4–8
- Type
- District school · Alternative
- Instruction
- In person
- Area
- Distant town
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Spearfish School District 40-2.
Location
- Address
- 2519 Windmill Dr, Spearfish, SD 57783
- Phone
- (605)717-1229
- City or town
- Spearfish
- County
- Lawrence County
Nearby middle schools
The closest public middle schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher | Reading | Math |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Black Hills Academy at Canyon Hills - 08Alternative | 4–8 | 0 | — | — | — |
| 6–8 | 545 | 14.9 | 55% | 49% | |
| 6–8 | 139 | 9.5 | 43% | 37% | |
| 5–8 | 414 | 13.5 | 50% | 39% | |
| 5–8 | 490 | 14.5 | 51% | 37% |
Reading and Math: share of tested students proficient or above on the state's own tests (grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year). Compare only within a state.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
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).
- State Assessment Data Repository (Education Data Center), 2024–25 school year. Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository v3.1.
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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