Mellette County has a short list so far: 3 local scholarships from 2 sponsors. A short local list is still worth a look, because only students from this area can apply. Most run through a community foundation, where one application often covers many funds. We keep searching and add new local scholarships as we find them, so this number grows.
One of the 3, picked for size and for a deadline you can plan around. The other 2, with every rule, deadline and what each one asks for, are on your student's board.
Each sponsor counted once, by kind. A community foundation often runs dozens of separate funds through one application, so it can be one sponsor with many scholarships.
| Who gives locally | Sponsors | Scholarships |
|---|---|---|
| Community foundations | 1 | 2 |
| School district and school foundations | 1 | 1 |
| All local sponsors | 2 | 3 |
White River School District 47-1 has 1 scholarship only its own students can apply for. If your student goes to school there, the board asks which one and adds them.
None of these have a posted date yet; many local sponsors publish the next round only a few weeks before it closes. Across the 2,211 local scholarships we track nationwide that do post a date, most fall in February and March. The time to get ready is the fall before.
That is fewer than the typical South Dakota county, which has 5; it ranks tied for 46th of South Dakota's 66 counties. On top of the local list, South Dakota students can look at 44 state scholarships and grants limited to the state but not to one county, and the national ones. Across South Dakota we have found 321 local scholarships in 65 counties. See every South Dakota county.
All 6 counties that border Mellette County have local scholarships in our catalog too. Some sponsors cover several counties, and a student who lives in one county and goes to school in another can sometimes apply on both sides.
A public four-year college in South Dakota averaged $9,079 in tuition and fees and $8,280 for a dorm and meals in 2022-23, about $17,359 a year before any aid, less than the national public average of $22,389. That is the newest federal figure published for every state, so today's prices run higher. The homepage works out what is left after South Dakota's own state aid for your student's grades and scores, college by college.
Answer a few questions and see how many of the 14,000+ scholarships we track fit your student, local ones included. Their own board, with every name, rule and deadline, is $149 for the school year.
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The full list, with each one's rules and deadlines, is the product. We read each one from the sponsor's own page and recheck it on a schedule, and that work is what the $149 board pays for. The one above shows the list is real; the board shows which of the 3 your student fits.
No. Most local scholarships add their own rules on top of where you live: one high school, a GPA floor, a planned major, a parent who is a member or a customer. The board asks about those once and shows the ones your student fits, with what each one still asks you to check.
Counted from our catalog on November 2, 2026. We add new local scholarships every week, so the numbers here usually go up.
Counts, amounts and deadline months come from each sponsor's own published rules and can change without notice. Totals add one winner of each scholarship; sponsors that do not publish an amount are not counted in the dollar total. A deadline month is from the most recent cycle we could find. College prices are estimates to plan with, not a quote. Confirm anything you act on with the sponsor or the college.