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Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

Spearfish Middle School - 05, Spearfish, SD

Spearfish Middle School - 05 is a public middle school in Spearfish, part of Spearfish School District 40-2. It enrolled 545 students in 2024-25, with 15.1 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
545
Teachers (FTE)
36.0
Students per teacher
15.1
Grades
6 to 8

This school's ratio is 1.0 higher than the district figure of 14.1. The South Dakota average across schools is 14.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school15.1
District14.1
South Dakota14.2
United States15.3

School details

Address
1600 N Canyon, Spearfish, SD 57783
County
Lawrence County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Virtual
No
Locale
Town: Distant
NCES school ID
466693000622
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
75
Reduced-price lunch
22
Free or reduced-price lunch
9717.8% of enrollment.
Direct certification
53Students 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 Spearfish School District 40-2

Middle schools elsewhere in Spearfish

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.