CHISHOLM SECONDARY

CHISHOLM SECONDARY is a senior high of low-enrollment scale in CHISHOLM, Minnesota, overseen by CHISHOLM PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, caters to 291 students in grades 7 through 12. That puts it 22% smaller than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 371 students.

CHISHOLM PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 640 students. CHISHOLM SECONDARY is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, CHISHOLM SECONDARY logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%); the rest comes out to 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Native American, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, CHISHOLM SECONDARY logs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. About 52% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against St. Louis County (around 40%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, CHISHOLM SECONDARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 37.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 25.2%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (St. Louis County) shows that median household earnings sit near $70,069, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. CHISHOLM SECONDARY is one of 100 public schools in St. Louis County (combined enrollment of about 23,921 students).

Nearest neighbor: CHISHOLM ELEMENTARY, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around CHISHOLM SECONDARY. On composite proficiency, CHISHOLM SECONDARY comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 43.1%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Five-year trend. CHISHOLM SECONDARY's enrollment has contracted 12% since 2018, when it stood at 332 (now 291).

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