BENSON SECONDARY

BENSON SECONDARY operates as a mid-tier secondary school in BENSON, Minnesota, run under BENSON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 334 students spanning grades 6 through 12.

BENSON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 760 students; BENSON SECONDARY is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BENSON SECONDARY shows that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 11% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.3:1, putting BENSON SECONDARY tighter than the state norm the norm. About 38% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BENSON SECONDARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.2%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Swift County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $60,412 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Swift County's 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,767 students), BENSON SECONDARY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is BENSON AREA LEARNING CENTER, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BENSON SECONDARY comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 4%: 349 students in 2018 compared to 334 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 89% to 81% across the same window.

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