HOLDINGFORD SECONDARY

Set in HOLDINGFORD, Minnesota, HOLDINGFORD SECONDARY is a moderately sized high school, one of the schools within HOLDINGFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. It serves 509 students across grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 371 students each, so HOLDINGFORD SECONDARY sits 37% above that benchmark.

HOLDINGFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 1,098 students; HOLDINGFORD SECONDARY is among them.

On demographics, HOLDINGFORD SECONDARY logs that 97% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.3:1, putting HOLDINGFORD SECONDARY higher than the state norm the norm. Around 27% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Stearns County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, HOLDINGFORD SECONDARY is in the bottom 10% of Minnesota public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 50.5%; HOLDINGFORD SECONDARY posts 27.3%, -23.2 points below that line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Stearns County indicate the typical household earns roughly $77,066 per year, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. HOLDINGFORD SECONDARY is one of 74 public schools in Stearns County (combined enrollment of about 24,160 students).

HOLDINGFORD ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HOLDINGFORD SECONDARY ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 51.7%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 504 students in 2018 compared to 509 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 22.2:1 today.

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