HENNING SECONDARY

HENNING SECONDARY is a compact high school in HENNING, Minnesota, run under HENNING PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school works with 171 students in grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 54% below the state mean of about 371.

Within HENNING PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 2 schools and 381 students, HENNING SECONDARY is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, HENNING SECONDARY shows that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 5% Hispanic. Compared to Otter Tail County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.3:1, putting HENNING SECONDARY higher than the state norm the norm. About 36% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), HENNING SECONDARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.9%; this one delivers 36.9%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Otter Tail County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $72,255 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Otter Tail County runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,503 students), of which HENNING SECONDARY is one.

Nearest neighbor: HENNING ELEMENTARY, around 0.0 miles off. On composite proficiency, HENNING SECONDARY comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.9%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 10%: 190 students in 2018 compared to 171 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 95% to 89% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 today.

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