Aitkin Secondary School

Aitkin Secondary School is a high school of middle-of-the-pack scale in AITKIN, Minnesota, part of Aitkin Public School District, works with 509 students in grades 7 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 371 students per school, that is 37% above typical.

Aitkin Public School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 989 students; Aitkin Secondary School is among them.

On demographics, Aitkin Secondary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Other groups include 4% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Aitkin County as a whole.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. Around 41% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Aitkin Secondary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 48.4%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Aitkin County indicate the typical household earns roughly $60,833 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Aitkin County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,670 students), of which Aitkin Secondary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Aitkin Alternative Learning Program, around 0.3 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Aitkin Secondary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 44.4%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 6%: 544 students in 2018 compared to 509 in 2025.

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