CANBY SECONDARY
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Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 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 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 CANBY SECONDARY
CANBY SECONDARY operates as a small senior high in CANBY, Minnesota, operated by CANBY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 300 students spanning grades 7 through 12.
Across the 2 schools in CANBY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT (604 students total), CANBY SECONDARY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, CANBY SECONDARY records that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder breaks down as 6% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Yellow Medicine County as a whole.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.1:1. The state averages around 16.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 41% of students at CANBY SECONDARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
With demographic context factored in, CANBY SECONDARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 43.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.9%.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Yellow Medicine County) records that median household income runs about $74,000, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. CANBY SECONDARY is one of 9 public schools in Yellow Medicine County (combined enrollment of about 1,274 students).
Nearest neighbor: CANBY ELEMENTARY, around 0.4 miles off. On composite proficiency, CANBY SECONDARY comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.7%.
CANBY SECONDARY operates from a countryside location.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 10%: 273 students in 2018 compared to 300 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 today.
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