CROMWELL-WRIGHT SECONDARY

CROMWELL-WRIGHT SECONDARY is one of the micro-enrollment 9-12 campuss in CROMWELL, Minnesota, part of CROMWELL-WRIGHT PUBLIC SCHOOLS, with 137 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 63% below the state mean of about 371.

CROMWELL-WRIGHT SECONDARY is one of 2 schools operated by CROMWELL-WRIGHT PUBLIC SCHOOLS, a district that instructs 300 students overall.

On the student-mix side, CROMWELL-WRIGHT SECONDARY records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). Beyond that, the school logs 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. An estimated 24% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Carlton County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, CROMWELL-WRIGHT SECONDARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.1%, the actual is 40.1%, a residual of -12.1 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Carlton County indicate median household income runs about $80,573, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Carlton County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,201 students), of which CROMWELL-WRIGHT SECONDARY is one.

The closest other public school is CROMWELL-WRIGHT ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.0 miles away. On composite proficiency, CROMWELL-WRIGHT SECONDARY comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. CROMWELL-WRIGHT SECONDARY's enrollment has declined 6% since 2018, when it stood at 145 (now 137). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 94% to 90%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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