School Rating Information
Jefferson Educational Rating
This town is served by
two school districts:
DAKOTA VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT 61-8 School District
DISTRICT RATING COMPARED TO STATE (10 is best) |
6 |
Better than: of SD school districts |
51.3%
|
DISTRICT RATING COMPARED TO U.S. (10 is best)
|
7 |
Better than: of US school districts |
64.4%
|
STUDENTS PER CLASSROOM |
| 14 |
| STATE AVERAGE 13 |
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Public School Test Scores (No Child Left Behind)
|
82%
|
79%
|
84%
|
83%
|
79%
|
75%
|
DISTRICT
|
|
STATE
|
PROFICIENT IN READING & MATH |
PROFICIENT IN READING |
PROFICIENT IN MATH |
|
School district enrollment by group
|
| ETHNIC/RACIAL GROUPS |
THIS DISTRICT |
THIS STATE |
| WHITE (NON-HISPANIC) (%) |
92.8 |
85.0 |
| BLACK (%) |
1.2 |
1.6 |
| HISPANIC (%) |
3.0 |
2.0 |
| ASIAN OR PACIFIC ISLANDER (%) |
2.3 |
1.0 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN OR NATIVE OF ALASKA (%) |
0.8 |
10.5 |
|
| ECONOMIC GROUPS |
THIS DISTRICT |
THIS STATE |
| ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED (%) |
17.4 |
32.0 |
Educational Expenditures
|
| FOR THIS DISTRICT |
PER STUDENT |
TOTAL |
% OF TOTAL |
| INSTRUCTIONAL EXPENDITURES |
$3,871
|
$3,619,000
|
50.9 |
| SUPPORT EXPENDITURES |
| STUDENT |
$287
|
$268,000
|
3.8 |
| STAFF |
$477
|
$446,000
|
6.3 |
| GENERAL ADMINISTRATION |
$323
|
$302,000
|
4.2 |
| SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION |
$336
|
$314,000
|
4.4 |
| OPERATION |
$668
|
$625,000
|
8.8 |
| TRANSPORTATION |
$320
|
$299,000
|
4.2 |
| OTHER |
$258
|
$241,000
|
3.4 |
| TOTAL SUPPORT |
$2,668
|
$2,495,000
|
35.1 |
| NON-INSTRUCTIONAL EXPENDITURES |
$1,071
|
$1,001,000
|
14.1 |
| TOTAL EXPENDITURES |
$7,610
|
$7,115,000
|
100.0 |
|
| Jefferson EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT |
| ADULTS IN Jefferson WITH COLLEGE DEGREE OR HIGHER (%) |
33.0 |
| CHILDREN IN Jefferson LIVING IN POVERTY (%) |
5.0 |
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ELK POINT-JEFFERSON SCHOOL DISTRICT 61-7 School District
DISTRICT RATING COMPARED TO STATE (10 is best) |
7 |
Better than: of SD school districts |
66.4%
|
DISTRICT RATING COMPARED TO U.S. (10 is best)
|
8 |
Better than: of US school districts |
72.3%
|
STUDENTS PER CLASSROOM |
| 16 |
| STATE AVERAGE 13 |
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Public School Test Scores (No Child Left Behind)
|
84%
|
79%
|
89%
|
83%
|
79%
|
75%
|
DISTRICT
|
|
STATE
|
PROFICIENT IN READING & MATH |
PROFICIENT IN READING |
PROFICIENT IN MATH |
|
School district enrollment by group
|
| ETHNIC/RACIAL GROUPS |
THIS DISTRICT |
THIS STATE |
| WHITE (NON-HISPANIC) (%) |
95.3 |
85.0 |
| BLACK (%) |
0.9 |
1.6 |
| HISPANIC (%) |
1.9 |
2.0 |
| ASIAN OR PACIFIC ISLANDER (%) |
0.4 |
1.0 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN OR NATIVE OF ALASKA (%) |
1.6 |
10.5 |
|
| ECONOMIC GROUPS |
THIS DISTRICT |
THIS STATE |
| ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED (%) |
18.5 |
32.0 |
Educational Expenditures
|
| FOR THIS DISTRICT |
PER STUDENT |
TOTAL |
% OF TOTAL |
| INSTRUCTIONAL EXPENDITURES |
$3,835
|
$2,681,000
|
53.2 |
| SUPPORT EXPENDITURES |
| STUDENT |
$298
|
$208,000
|
4.1 |
| STAFF |
$356
|
$249,000
|
4.9 |
| GENERAL ADMINISTRATION |
$345
|
$241,000
|
4.8 |
| SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION |
$273
|
$191,000
|
3.8 |
| OPERATION |
$735
|
$514,000
|
10.2 |
| TRANSPORTATION |
$282
|
$197,000
|
3.9 |
| OTHER |
$215
|
$150,000
|
3.0 |
| TOTAL SUPPORT |
$2,504
|
$1,750,000
|
34.8 |
| NON-INSTRUCTIONAL EXPENDITURES |
$863
|
$603,000
|
12.0 |
| TOTAL EXPENDITURES |
$7,202
|
$5,034,000
|
100.0 |
|
| Jefferson EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT |
| ADULTS IN Jefferson WITH COLLEGE DEGREE OR HIGHER (%) |
33.0 |
| CHILDREN IN Jefferson LIVING IN POVERTY (%) |
5.0 |
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About Jefferson
Jefferson is
a very small town
located in the state of
South Dakota.
With a population of
1,151 people
and
just one neighborhood,
Jefferson is the
74th
largest community in
South Dakota.
Jefferson
is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar,
instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs.
Overall, Jefferson is
a town of
sales and office workers, managers,
and professionals.
There are especially a lot of
people living in Jefferson who work
in sales jobs (10.96%),
office and administrative support jobs (10.96%),
and business and financial occupations (8.26%).
Also of interest is that Jefferson has
more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
One of the benefits of Jefferson
is that there is very little traffic. The
average commute to work is
19.06
minutes, which is substantially less than the
national average. Not only does this mean that
the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise
and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Being a small town,
Jefferson does not have a public
transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Jefferson Information and Demographics
The education level of Jefferson
citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns:
17.46%
of adults in Jefferson
have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Jefferson
in 2000 was $17,553,
which is upper middle income relative to
South Dakota, and
middle income relative to the rest of the US.
This equates to an annual income of $70,212
for a family of four.
The people who call Jefferson home come from
a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in
Jefferson is
White,
followed by Native American.
Important ancestries of people in Jefferson include
German, Irish, French, French Canadian, Norwegian,
and English.