Albany Area High School

Albany Area High School is one of the heavily attended 9-12 campuss in ALBANY, Minnesota, run under ALBANY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 584 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 371 students each, so Albany Area High School sits 57% above that benchmark.

Within ALBANY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 5 schools and 1,744 students, Albany Area High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Albany Area High School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). The remainder looks like 2% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Stearns County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. Roughly 13% of students at Albany Area High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Stearns County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Albany Area High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.9%, the actual is 49.1%, a residual of -8.8 points.

Around the school, census data for Stearns County shows median household income runs about $77,066, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Stearns County's 74 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,160 students), Albany Area High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Albany Area Middle School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Albany Area High School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Albany Area High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 48.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Albany Area High School has climbed 10%, going from 530 students in 2018 to 584 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 today.

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