BADGER SECONDARY
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Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Minnesota's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About BADGER SECONDARY
BADGER SECONDARY, an one-room-style secondary school in BADGER, Minnesota, one of the schools within BADGER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, works with 99 students, covering grades 7 through 12. That puts it 73% leaner than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 371 students.
BADGER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 223 students; BADGER SECONDARY is among them.
On demographics, BADGER SECONDARY reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). The remainder comes out to 4% Black, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 55% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Roseau County's rate of about 34%.
With demographic context factored in, BADGER SECONDARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.3%.
In the surrounding community, Roseau County reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,474 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Roseau County runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,582 students), of which BADGER SECONDARY is one.
Nearest neighbor: BADGER ELEMENTARY, around 0.0 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 3 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, BADGER SECONDARY comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 40.1%.
Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BADGER SECONDARY has fell 15%, going from 116 students in 2018 to 99 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 in 2025.
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