CASS LAKE-BENA SECONDARY

CASS LAKE-BENA SECONDARY, a cozy 9-12 campus in CASS LAKE, Minnesota, overseen by CASS LAKE-BENA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, works with 263 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 371 students per school, that is 29% leaner than typical.

Within CASS LAKE-BENA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, which oversees 4 schools and 1,119 students, CASS LAKE-BENA SECONDARY is one campus in the system.

On demographics, CASS LAKE-BENA SECONDARY logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Native American (92%). Other groups include 6% White.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. About 76% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Cass County's rate of about 61%.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, CASS LAKE-BENA SECONDARY sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 24.4%; actual is 11.5%, a gap of -12.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Cass County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $68,874 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Cass County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,570 students), CASS LAKE-BENA SECONDARY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Cass Lake-Bena Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, CASS LAKE-BENA SECONDARY comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 34.8%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 11%: 237 students in 2018 compared to 263 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 8.3:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 in 2025.

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