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Enrollment
411
High
DISTRICT 218 · STATE 371
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HOWARD LAKE-WAVERLY-WINSTED·NCES 270012300751
HOWARD LAKE-WAVERLY-WINSTED SEC.
8700 COUNTY ROAD 6 SW, HOWARD LAKE, MN 55349 · (320) 543-4600 · Wright County
GRADES 09–12HIGH42-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL411 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 38% of Minnesota public high schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Minnesota public high schools
Student : Teacher
18.6:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 16.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
24%
100 students
DISTRICT 30% · STATE 48%
Community
4
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 101 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 114 | 28% |
| Grade 11 | 96 | 23% |
| Grade 12 | 100 | 24% |
Student demographics
23%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 22% · STATE 60% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsEnglish Language Arts
56.1%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
16.1%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 16 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
Source: MCA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of MN schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
39.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.0%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 52% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like HOWARD LAKE-WAVERLY-WINSTED SEC.
HOWARD LAKE-WAVERLY-WINSTED SEC.'s state test result (39.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOWARD LAKE-WAVERLY-WINSTED SEC. this school | 411 | 24.3% | 39.0% |
| LUVERNE SENIOR HIGH LUVERNE | 351 | 24.2% | 50.7% |
| Plainview-Elgin-Millville High PLAINVIEW | 414 | 25.8% | 48.3% |
| DILWORTH-GLYNDON-FELTON SENIOR HIGH GLYNDON | 449 | 22.3% | 51.6% |
| ROSEAU SECONDARY ROSEAU | 527 | 23.5% | 32.5% |
| Cannon Falls Secondary CANNON FALLS | 536 | 23.1% | 51.3% |
Matched among Minnesota high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where HOWARD LAKE-WAVERLY-WINSTED SEC. ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota | In Wright County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #199 of 397 | #8 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.1% | #341 of 401 | #8 of 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.1% | #100 of 397 | #5 of 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 411 | #198 of 764 | #7 of 27 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.6:1 | #225 of 332 | #3 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 22.8% | #232 of 338 | #4 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 24.3% | #354 of 444 | #2 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +25.3% | #31 of 181 | N/A |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
411
+79 (+24%) vs 2020
-2% since 2000-01, when it was 420
Student : Teacher
18.6:1
was 18.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 411 | 22.1 | 18.6:1 | 24% (100) |
| 2023-24 | 399 | 21.4 | 18.7:1 | 25% (99) |
| 2022-23 | 398 | 20.9 | 19.1:1 | 29% (117) |
| 2020-21 | 332 | 18 | 18.4:1 | 14% (48) |
| 2017-18 | 328 | 20.2 | 16.3:1 | 21% (69) |
| 2015-16 | 293 | 17 | 17.2:1 | 25% (73) |
| 2010-11 | 346 | 17 | 20.4:1 | 25% (87) |
| 2000-01 | 420 | 26 | 16.1:1 | 10% (44) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for HOWARD LAKE-WAVERLY-WINSTED SEC..
Since 2017-18: students up 25% (328 to 411); teachers up 9% (20.2 to 22.1).
About HOWARD LAKE-WAVERLY-WINSTED SEC.
HOWARD LAKE-WAVERLY-WINSTED SEC. is a medium-sized high school serving families in HOWARD LAKE, Minnesota. Enrolled students number 411 students, in grades 9 through 12.
HOWARD LAKE-WAVERLY-WINSTED SEC. is one school in HOWARD LAKE-WAVERLY-WINSTED, a system of 6 schools with 1,312 students.
Federal enrollment data show HOWARD LAKE-WAVERLY-WINSTED SEC. is 88% White. The school is also 6% Hispanic and 3% multiracial. That is close to the 89% White share among all Wright County residents. HOWARD LAKE-WAVERLY-WINSTED SEC.'s diversity index is 23%, against a US figure of 70%.
HOWARD LAKE-WAVERLY-WINSTED SEC.'s 22.1 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 18.6:1. That is higher than the 16.3:1 average for high schools in Minnesota. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 24%. That tracks the 24% average for public schools in Wright County.
The allk12 Grade for HOWARD LAKE-WAVERLY-WINSTED SEC. is C+. Compared with Minnesota public high schools, the school scored higher than 38% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate on state tests for HOWARD LAKE-WAVERLY-WINSTED SEC. is 52.0%. It actually posts 39.0%, which is 13.0 points lower and in the bottom 10% of Minnesota schools.
In Wright County (population about 148,269), the median household income is $107,209, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. HOWARD LAKE-WAVERLY-WINSTED SEC. is one of 88 public schools in the county.
Nearby, HLWW ALTERNATIVE LEARNING PROGRAM is less than a tenth of a mile away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles.
The school's locale code, Rural: Distant, means it is in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 79 more students in 2024-25.
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Wright County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
148,269
Census ACS
Median income
$107,209
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
88
27,879 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in HOWARD LAKE-WAVERLY-WINSTED
- Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted MiddleMiddle · 393 students
- HUMPHREY ELEMENTARYElementary · 243 students
- WINSTED ELEMENTARYElementary · 213 students
- HOWARD LAKE WAVERLY WINSTED ECSEElementary · 28 students
- HLWW ALTERNATIVE LEARNING PROGRAMHigh · 24 students
- ALP Credit RecoveryHigh
Other schools in HOWARD LAKE
- Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted MiddleMiddle · 393 students
- Meeker-Wright Early Childhood Sp EdElementary · 68 students
- HLWW ALTERNATIVE LEARNING PROGRAMHigh · 24 students
- Step TD ProgramHigh · 18 students
- Journeys Alternative ProgramElementary · 9 students
- Trek ProgramCombined · 7 students
Nearby schools
- HLWW ALTERNATIVE LEARNING PROGRAM0.0 mi · 24
- Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted Middle0.0 mi · 393
- Trek Program2.1 mi · 7
- Journeys Alternative Program2.1 mi · 9
- Step TD Program2.1 mi · 18
- Meeker-Wright Early Childhood Sp Ed2.1 mi · 68
Frequently asked questions
About HOWARD LAKE-WAVERLY-WINSTED SEC.How large is HOWARD LAKE-WAVERLY-WINSTED SEC.?
HOWARD LAKE-WAVERLY-WINSTED SEC. enrolls approximately 411 students in grades 09-12.
Is HOWARD LAKE-WAVERLY-WINSTED SEC. an elementary, middle, or high school?
HOWARD LAKE-WAVERLY-WINSTED SEC. is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many teachers does HOWARD LAKE-WAVERLY-WINSTED SEC. have?
HOWARD LAKE-WAVERLY-WINSTED SEC. employs 22 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.6:1.
What is the student diversity at HOWARD LAKE-WAVERLY-WINSTED SEC.?
Student demographics at HOWARD LAKE-WAVERLY-WINSTED SEC. are roughly 88% White, 6% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is HOWARD LAKE-WAVERLY-WINSTED SEC. in?
HOWARD LAKE-WAVERLY-WINSTED SEC. is part of HOWARD LAKE-WAVERLY-WINSTED.
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