FOLEY SENIOR HIGH

FOLEY SENIOR HIGH is one of the big senior highs in FOLEY, Minnesota, one of the schools within FOLEY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 588 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 58% above the state mean of about 371.

FOLEY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,921 students. FOLEY SENIOR HIGH is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, FOLEY SENIOR HIGH shows that 97% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 87%.

On the resource side, The school employs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.3:1, putting FOLEY SENIOR HIGH higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 23% of students at FOLEY SENIOR HIGH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Benton County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, FOLEY SENIOR HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.5%, the actual is 44.5%, a residual of -8.0 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Benton County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $74,410 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. FOLEY SENIOR HIGH is one of 16 public schools in Benton County (combined enrollment of about 6,680 students).

Nearest neighbor: FOLEY INTERMEDIATE ELEMENTARY, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts FOLEY SENIOR HIGH at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 45.6%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. FOLEY SENIOR HIGH's enrollment has edged down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 645 (now 588). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.3:1 in 2018 to 19.9:1 today.

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