Table of contents
•	Title page
•	Introduction
•	Acknowledgments
•	National Summary
	State Profiles
	-	Alabama
	-	Alaska
	-	Arizona
	-	Arkansas
	-	California
	-	Colorado
	-	Connecticut
	-	Delaware
	-	District of Columbia
	-	Florida
	-	Georgia
	-	Hawaii
	-	Idaho
	-	Illinois
	-	Indiana
	-	Iowa
	-	Kansas
	-	Kentucky
	-	Louisiana
	-	Maine
	-	Maryland
	-	Massachusetts
	-	Michigan
	-	Minnesota
	-	Mississippi
	-	Missouri
	-	Montana
	-	Nebraska
	-	Nevada
	-	New Hampshire
	-	New Jersey
	-	New Mexico
	-	New York
	-	North Carolina
	-	North Dakota
	-	Ohio
	-	Oklahoma
	-	Oregon
	-	Pennsylvania
	-	Puerto Rico
	-	Rhode Island
	-	South Carolina
	-	South Dakota
	-	Tennessee
	-	Texas
	-	Utah
	-	Vermont
	-	Virginia
	-	Washington
	-	West Virginia
	-	Wisconsin
	-	Wyoming
•	Sources
•	Appendix A
•	Appendix B
•	Appendix C
•	Full report in PDF format (956K)

State Education Indicators With a Focus on Title I

A r c h i v e d I n f o r m a t i o n

South Dakota
state.sd.us/deca

School and Teacher Demographics
Student Demographics
Statewide Accountability Information
Title I Schools
Assessment Information
Student Achievement 1998-1999
NAEP State Results
Printable version of this profile (PDF format)

School and Teacher Demographics

Number of districts
(CCD, 1998-99)

176

Number of public schools in state
(CCD, 1998-99)
Elementary	Middle	High	Combined	Other
393	181	181	10	5

Student/teacher ratio
(CCD, 1998-99)
Elementary	Middle	High
16:1	14:1	15:1

Number of FTE teachers in state
(CCD, 1998-99)
Elementary	Middle	High	Combined	Other
3,910	1,995	2,800	40	22

Public school enrollment
	1989-90	1998-99
K-8 (CCD)	93,596	90,081
9-12 (CCD)	33,733	41,546
Pre-K (by state definition)	n/a	654

Sources of funding
District average
(CCD, 1996-97)

State 35.6%, Local 53.2%, Federal 10.0%, Intermediate 1.2%

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Student Demographics

Race/ethnicity
(CCD, K-12)
	1989-90	1998-99
American Indian/Alaskan Natives	n/a	9.6%
Asian/Pacific Islander	n/a	0.9
Black	n/a	1.0
Hispanic	n/a	1.0
White	n/a	87.5

Students with disabilities
(OSEP, K-12)
1990-91	1998-99
9.6%	9.6%

Limited English proficient
(USED/NCBE, K-12)
1989-90	1996-97
6,048	6,515

Migrant
(OME, K-12)
1993-94	1998-99
1,733	2,562

High school dropout rate
(CCD, event)
1993-94	1997-98
n/a	3.1

Postsecondary enrollment
(IPEDS, High school grads enrolled in college)
1994-95	1997-98
50%	50%

All schools by percent of students eligible to participate in the Free Lunch Program*
(CCD, 1998-99)

For 0 to 34%, 600 schools; 35 to 49%, 73 schools; 50 to 74%, 49 schools; and 75 to 100%, 42 schools.

*Six schools did not report.

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Statewide Accountability Information

Statewide Goal for Schools on State Assessment
School accreditation

Expected School Improvement on Assessment
Under Task Force Review

Indicators for School Accountability
Under Task Force Review

Title I Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for Schools
Five percent gain from Below Basic to Basic or from Basic to Proficient.

Schools Meeting Title I AYP Goal
396 (100.0%)

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Title I Schools

Title I enrollment
(USED)
	1998-99
K-8	19,263
9-12	1,158
Pre-K	237

Race/ethnicity
(USED, K-12)
	Schoolwide	Targeted Assistance
American Indian/Alaskan Natives	6,226	1,573
Asian/Pacific Islander	77	50
Black	163	89
Hispanic	195	142
White	5,036	8,474

Title I allocation
(Includes Basic, Concentration, and LEA grants, Capital Expenditures, Even Start, Migrant Education, and Neglected & Delinquent, USED, 1998-99)

$20,781,896

Number of schools with Title I programs
Schoolwide vs. targeted assistance (USED)

In 1996, 21 schools with schoolwide programs and 418 schools with targeted assistance; in 1998, 71 schoolwide, 301 targeted assistance; in 1999, 82 schoolwide, 314 targeted assistance

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Assessment Information

Assessment Reported
Stanford Achievement Test Version 9, used since 1997-98

Progress Toward Assessment Aligned with Standards
Performance standards met review criteria of the U.S. Department of Education.

State Definition of "Proficient" used since 1997
National percentile; no levels

Exclusion from Assessment
Information will be available from 1999-2000 results

Other Assessments
Stanford Achievement Writing Test, Grades 5 & 9
Other assessments are under development

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Student Achievement 1998-1999

Percentage of students meeting state proficiency levels

Grade 4

Reading/ Language Arts
		National percentile
All Students		64%
Title I Schoolwide
Title I Targeted
Percent of School in Poverty
	00-34
	75-100
LEP Students
Migrant students

Mathematics
		National percentile
All Students		62%
Title I Schoolwide
Title I Targeted
Percent of School in Poverty
	00-34
	75-100
LEP Students
Migrant students

Grade 8

Reading/Language Arts
		National percentile
All Students		64%
Title I Schoolwide
Title I Targeted
Percent of School in Poverty
	00-34
	75-100
LEP Students
Migrant students

Mathematics
		National percentile
All Students		69%
Title I Schoolwide
Title I Targeted
Percent of School in Poverty
	00-34
	75-100
LEP Students
Migrant students

Grade 11

Reading/LanguageArts
	National percentile
All Students	53%
Title I Schoolwide
Title I Targeted

Mathematics
	National percentile
All Students	67%
Title I Schoolwide
Title I Targeted

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NAEP State Results
	Grade 4	Grade 8
Reading, 1998:
Proficient level and above	n/a	n/a
Basic level and above	n/a	n/a
Math, 2000:
Proficient level and above	n/a	n/a
Basic level and above	n/a	n/a