BOLD Senior High School

BOLD Senior High School operates as a cozy secondary school in OLIVIA, Minnesota, part of BIRD ISLAND-OLIVIA-LAKE LILLIAN. Current enrollment sits at 203 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 371 students per school, that is 45% below typical.

Across the 3 schools in BIRD ISLAND-OLIVIA-LAKE LILLIAN (636 students total), BOLD Senior High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BOLD Senior High School logs that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 10% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Renville County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. An estimated 33% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Renville County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, BOLD Senior High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 47.1%; actual is 31.6%, a gap of -15.5 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Renville County indicate median household earnings sit near $70,625, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Renville County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,806 students), of which BOLD Senior High School is one.

The closest other public school is BOLD Middle School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BOLD Senior High School at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 41.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BOLD Senior High School has fell 35%, going from 310 students in 2018 to 203 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 8.8:1 today.

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