COMFREY SECONDARY

As an one-room-style 9-12 campus in COMFREY, Minnesota, COMFREY SECONDARY caters to 47 students from grades 7 through 12, operated by COMFREY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. Compared to the state average of about 371 students per school, that is 87% smaller than typical.

Within COMFREY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 2 schools and 104 students, COMFREY SECONDARY is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, COMFREY SECONDARY reports that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 9% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.7:1. The state averages around 16.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 40% of students at COMFREY SECONDARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, COMFREY SECONDARY is in the bottom 10% of Minnesota public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 43.3%; COMFREY SECONDARY posts 26.9%, -16.5 points below that line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Brown County indicate the typical household earns roughly $69,378 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Brown County runs 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,672 students), of which COMFREY SECONDARY is one.

COMFREY ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts COMFREY SECONDARY at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 39.1%.

COMFREY SECONDARY operates from a low-density location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 42%: 81 students in 2018 compared to 47 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 8.7:1 today.

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