ELLSWORTH SECONDARY

As a micro-enrollment 9-12 campus in ELLSWORTH, Minnesota, ELLSWORTH SECONDARY serves 60 students from grades 7 through 12, overseen by ELLSWORTH PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 371 students each, so ELLSWORTH SECONDARY sits 84% below that benchmark.

Within ELLSWORTH PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 2 schools and 136 students, ELLSWORTH SECONDARY is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, ELLSWORTH SECONDARY records that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 12% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 56%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, ELLSWORTH SECONDARY has 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. About 32% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Nobles County (around 61%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, ELLSWORTH SECONDARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.0%, the actual is 39.2%, a residual of -8.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Nobles County) records that the typical household earns roughly $66,101 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Nobles County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,284 students), of which ELLSWORTH SECONDARY is one.

Nearest neighbor: ELLSWORTH ELEMENTARY, around 0.0 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, ELLSWORTH SECONDARY comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 64.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. ELLSWORTH SECONDARY's enrollment has climbed 3% since 2018, when it stood at 58 (now 60). The White share of enrollment decreased from 97% to 82% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 6.6:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 today.

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