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.

On allk12, the feed for BADGER SECONDARY typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.