Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to K
McKinley Early Childhood Center - 06, Watertown, SD
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 296
- Teachers (FTE)
- 21.0
- Students per teacher
- 14.1
- Grades
- PK to K
This school's ratio is 1.0 lower than the district figure of 15.1. The South Dakota average across schools is 14.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 5 12th St SW, Watertown, SD 57201
- Phone
- (605)882-6350
- District
- Watertown School District 14-4
- County
- Codington County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Town: Remote
- NCES school ID
- 467662000713
School meals
- Free lunch
- 69
- Reduced-price lunch
- 44
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 11338.2% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 45Students 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 elementary schools in Watertown School District 14-4
- Lincoln Elementary - 05 361 students
- Jefferson Elementary - 09 333 students
- Mellette Elementary - 07 267 students
- Sunrise Colony - 15 20 students
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.