DETROIT LAKES SENIOR HIGH

Located at 1301 ROOSEVELT AVE, in DETROIT LAKES, Minnesota, DETROIT LAKES SENIOR HIGH is a substantial 9-12 campus that serves 791 students (grades 9 through 12), run under DETROIT LAKES PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST.. That puts it 113% larger than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 371 students.

DETROIT LAKES SENIOR HIGH is one of 9 schools operated by DETROIT LAKES PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST., a district that enrolls 2,728 students overall.

Looking at the student body, DETROIT LAKES SENIOR HIGH logs that White students make up the majority at 76%. Other groups include 17% Native American, 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 85%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. Around 31% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Becker County (around 41%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, DETROIT LAKES SENIOR HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.3%, the actual is 53.1%, a residual of +4.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Becker County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $71,388 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Becker County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,637 students), DETROIT LAKES SENIOR HIGH is one campus in the mix.

Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DETROIT LAKES SENIOR HIGH. On composite proficiency, DETROIT LAKES SENIOR HIGH comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 48.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DETROIT LAKES SENIOR HIGH has fell 8%, going from 857 students in 2018 to 791 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 82% to 76% over that span.

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