Aurora Plains Academy High School - 05
Plankinton · SD · Plankinton School District 01-1 · Public
📄 Shareable scorecard →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 14% of US high schools
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Aurora Plains Academy High School - 05 compares for families
What families should know about Aurora Plains Academy High School - 05.
- ▸ LocallySD students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+7 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Dakota Reach - 06, Plankinton High School - 01, Mount Vernon High School- 01 and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Mixed-income school
Below Title I eligibility threshold (FRPL < 35%)
25-34% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Below the federal Title I threshold but a meaningful share of the population is income-eligible for free lunch.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +18.6%/year, projecting from 2024's 10 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dakota Reach - 06 Plankinton |
Public | 0.0 | 5 | — |
| Plankinton High School - 01 Plankinton |
Public | 1.1 | 86 | +4.9% |
| Mount Vernon High School- 01 Mount Vernon |
Public | 10.3 | 87 | +0.0% |
| White Lake High School - 01 White Lake |
Public | 12.1 | 33 | — |
| Corsica-Stickney High School - 01 Corsica |
Public | 21.1 | 72 | +0.0% |
| Grass Ranch Colony High School - 15 Kimball |
Public | 21.4 | 16 | — |
| Mitchell Christian School Mitchell |
Private | 21.5 | 139 | +6.9% |
| Abbott House High School - 07 Mitchell |
Public | 21.9 | 18 | — |