BRAINERD SENIOR HIGH

BRAINERD SENIOR HIGH, a well-populated high school in BRAINERD, Minnesota, one of the schools within BRAINERD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, instructs 1,805 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 371 students each, so BRAINERD SENIOR HIGH sits 387% above that benchmark.

BRAINERD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 6,079 students; BRAINERD SENIOR HIGH is among them.

In terms of who attends, BRAINERD SENIOR HIGH shows that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 5% multiracial, 2% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 90 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.3:1, putting BRAINERD SENIOR HIGH higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 32% of students at BRAINERD SENIOR HIGH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, BRAINERD SENIOR HIGH sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.1%; this one delivers 41.4%.

In the area at large, Crow Wing County reports that median household earnings sit near $72,589, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Crow Wing County runs 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,399 students), of which BRAINERD SENIOR HIGH is one.

The closest other public school is LINCOLN EDUCATION CENTER, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BRAINERD SENIOR HIGH. On composite proficiency, BRAINERD SENIOR HIGH comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.9%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BRAINERD SENIOR HIGH has fell 3%, going from 1,855 students in 2018 to 1,805 in 2025.

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