Fisher Secondary

Fisher Secondary, an one-room-style high school in FISHER, Minnesota, one of the schools within Fisher Public School District, teaches 99 students, covering grades 7 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 371 students per school, that is 73% leaner than typical.

Fisher Public School District comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 222 students; Fisher Secondary is among them.

On demographics, Fisher Secondary lists that White students make up the majority at 71%. The remainder looks like 18% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 2% Native American. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. Around 45% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Fisher Secondary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.6%, the actual is 29.7%, a residual of -11.0 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Polk County) logs that median household income runs about $73,107, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Polk County runs 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,075 students), of which Fisher Secondary is one.

The closest other public school is Fisher Elementary, roughly 0.0 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fisher Secondary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 39.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fisher Secondary has shrank 21%, going from 126 students in 2018 to 99 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 85% to 71% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 today.

On allk12, the feed for Fisher Secondary typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.