6-12th Grade Building

6-12th Grade Building, an one-room-style secondary school in GRACEVILLE, Minnesota, part of Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley, hosts 133 students, covering grades 6 through 12. That puts it 64% leaner than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 371 students.

Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 333 students; 6-12th Grade Building is among them.

Demographically, 6-12th Grade Building lists that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Big Stone County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, 6-12th Grade Building has 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. About 29% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Big Stone County's rate of about 38%.

After controlling for student poverty, 6-12th Grade Building falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 49.7%; this one comes in at 36.3%, -13.4 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Big Stone County put the typical household earns roughly $70,400 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Big Stone County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 843 students), of which 6-12th Grade Building is one.

Big Stone Colony Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around 6-12th Grade Building. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts 6-12th Grade Building at 3rd of 5; the average score across the group is 37.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 8%: 145 students in 2018 compared to 133 in 2025.

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