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Custer Junior High - 05, Custer, SD

Custer Junior High - 05 is a public middle school in Custer, part of Custer School District 16-1. It enrolled 101 students in 2024-25, with 14.4 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "Custer Jr. High - 05".

Enrollment and teachers

Students
101
Teachers (FTE)
7.0
Students per teacher
14.4
Grades
7 to 8

This school's ratio is 2.6 higher than the district figure of 11.8. The South Dakota average across schools is 14.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school14.4
District11.8
South Dakota14.2
United States15.3

School details

Address
1645 Wildcat Ln, Custer, SD 57730
Phone
(605)673-4473
District
Custer School District 16-1
County
Custer County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Virtual
No
Locale
Rural: Distant
NCES school ID
461695000992
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
19
Reduced-price lunch
9
Free or reduced-price lunch
2827.7% of enrollment.
Direct certification
5Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
No

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other middle schools in Custer School District 16-1

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.