ALDEN-CONGER SECONDARY

ALDEN-CONGER SECONDARY operates as a low-enrollment secondary school in ALDEN, Minnesota, one of the schools within ALDEN-CONGER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 215 students spanning grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 371 students each, so ALDEN-CONGER SECONDARY sits 42% below that benchmark.

Across the 2 schools in ALDEN-CONGER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT (444 students total), ALDEN-CONGER SECONDARY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, ALDEN-CONGER SECONDARY reports that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 5% Hispanic. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 30% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Freeborn County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, ALDEN-CONGER SECONDARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 46.2%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Freeborn County) logs that median household income runs about $71,023, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Freeborn County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,061 students), ALDEN-CONGER SECONDARY is one campus in the mix.

Enrich Alden is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ALDEN-CONGER SECONDARY at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 34.9%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 8%: 233 students in 2018 compared to 215 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

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