# Counties in South Dakota by school enrolment, children aged 3 and 4, 2024

All 66 values come from U.S. Census Bureau for 2024, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `preschool_enrolment_rate_3_4`
- Unit: %
- Definition: Children aged 3 and 4 enrolled in public or private school, including nursery school and preschool, at any time in the three months before the interview, as a percentage of all children aged 3 and 4. United States: American Community Survey five-year estimate, where the period shown is the last year of the five-year span.
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B14003: children aged 3 and 4 enrolled in public or private school as a percentage of all children aged 3 and 4, calculated with stored inputs (https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2024/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/acsdt5y2024-b14003.dat)
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Census Bureau. American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B14003: children aged 3 and 4 enrolled in public or private school as a percentage of all children aged 3 and 4, calculated with stored inputs. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2024/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/acsdt5y2024-b14003.dat. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/preschool-enrollment-ages-3-4/south-dakota-counties

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Lake County | 81.3 |
| 2 | Stanley County | 77.4 |
| 3 | Day County | 66.7 |
| 4 | Sully County | 64.7 |
| 5 | Clay County | 63.2 |
| 6 | Ziebach County | 62.9 |
| 7 | Douglas County | 59.3 |
| 8 | Buffalo County | 58.5 |
| 9 | Miner County | 55.2 |
| 10 | Charles Mix County | 55.2 |
| 11 | Campbell County | 55 |
| 11 | Potter County | 55 |
| 13 | Dewey County | 54.3 |
| 14 | Sanborn County | 53.6 |
| 15 | Lyman County | 52.6 |
| 16 | McPherson County | 51.9 |
| 17 | Custer County | 50 |
| 17 | Tripp County | 50 |
| 19 | Perkins County | 49.6 |
| 20 | Davison County | 49.3 |
| 21 | Faulk County | 46 |
| 22 | Grant County | 44.5 |
| 23 | Marshall County | 44 |
| 24 | Harding County | 43.5 |
| 25 | Mellette County | 42.4 |
| 26 | Jerauld County | 41.7 |
| 27 | Turner County | 41.5 |
| 28 | Pennington County | 40.9 |
| 29 | Lawrence County | 40.6 |
| 30 | Lincoln County | 39.8 |
| 31 | Roberts County | 38.6 |
| 32 | Union County | 38.1 |
| 33 | Todd County | 37.4 |
| 34 | Bon Homme County | 36.2 |
| 35 | Walworth County | 36.2 |
| 36 | Butte County | 34.1 |
| 37 | McCook County | 33.7 |
| 38 | Moody County | 33.6 |
| 39 | Minnehaha County | 33.3 |
| 40 | Hand County | 32.6 |
| 41 | Meade County | 32.3 |
| 42 | Gregory County | 31.6 |
| 43 | Fall River County | 31.6 |
| 44 | Spink County | 31.5 |
| 45 | Hughes County | 31.2 |
| 46 | Brookings County | 30.5 |
| 47 | Codington County | 28.7 |
| 48 | Brule County | 28.4 |
| 49 | Haakon County | 27.7 |
| 50 | Edmunds County | 27.4 |
| 51 | Aurora County | 27 |
| 52 | Corson County | 24.8 |
| 53 | Oglala Lakota County | 24.5 |
| 54 | Yankton County | 21 |
| 55 | Brown County | 20 |
| 55 | Clark County | 20 |
| 57 | Beadle County | 19 |
| 58 | Kingsbury County | 18.1 |
| 59 | Hutchinson County | 16 |
| 60 | Deuel County | 15.6 |
| 61 | Jones County | 14.9 |
| 62 | Hyde County | 12.8 |
| 63 | Hanson County | 11.2 |
| 64 | Bennett County | 10.4 |
| 65 | Jackson County | 10.3 |
| 66 | Hamlin County | 9 |