Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

McCook Central Middle School - 03, Salem, SD

McCook Central Middle School - 03 is a public middle school in Salem, part of McCook Central School District 43-7. It enrolled 84 students in 2024-25, with 14.0 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 84
Teachers (FTE): 6.0
Students per teacher: 14.0
Grades: 6 to 8

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 13.4. The South Dakota average across schools is 14.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school14.0

District13.4

South Dakota14.2

United States15.3

School details

Address: 200 E Essex, Salem, SD 57058
Phone: (605)425-2264
District: McCook Central School District 43-7
County: McCook County
Level: Middle
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Virtual: No
Locale: Rural: Remote
NCES school ID: 460102601034

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 11
Reduced-price lunch: 11
Free or reduced-price lunch: 2226.2% of enrollment.
Direct certification: 6Students 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.

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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.