Glacial Ridge Transitional Skills P

Located at 616 RENO ST, in HAWLEY, Minnesota, Glacial Ridge Transitional Skills P is a micro-enrollment secondary school that educates 15 students (grades 7 through 12), run under Lake Agassiz Education Cooperative. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 371 students each, so Glacial Ridge Transitional Skills P sits 96% below that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in Lake Agassiz Education Cooperative (134 students total), Glacial Ridge Transitional Skills P accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Glacial Ridge Transitional Skills P reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%); the rest comes out to 13% Native American, 7% Hispanic.

On the resource side, Glacial Ridge Transitional Skills P lists 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 7.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.3:1, putting Glacial Ridge Transitional Skills P tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 33% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Across the wider county, Clay County reports that the typical household earns roughly $81,172 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Clay County's 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,470 students), Glacial Ridge Transitional Skills P is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Lake Agassiz Education Cooperative, around 0.0 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Glacial Ridge Transitional Skills P operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 67%: 9 students in 2018 compared to 15 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged down from 11% to 7%.

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