JANESVILLE-WALDORF-PEMBERTON SEC

As a tight-knit senior high in JANESVILLE, Minnesota, JANESVILLE-WALDORF-PEMBERTON SEC serves 312 students from grades 7 through 12, part of JANESVILLE-WALDORF-PEMBERTON.

Across the 2 schools in JANESVILLE-WALDORF-PEMBERTON (629 students total), JANESVILLE-WALDORF-PEMBERTON SEC accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, JANESVILLE-WALDORF-PEMBERTON SEC reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). Other groups include 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Waseca County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. About 26% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Waseca County's rate of about 41%.

After controlling for student poverty, JANESVILLE-WALDORF-PEMBERTON SEC performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.9%, the actual is 50.9%, a residual of -0.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Waseca County shows the typical household earns roughly $76,261 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Waseca County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,915 students), of which JANESVILLE-WALDORF-PEMBERTON SEC is one.

Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton Elem is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JANESVILLE-WALDORF-PEMBERTON SEC ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 48.4%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JANESVILLE-WALDORF-PEMBERTON SEC has changed only slightly, going from 317 students in 2018 to 312 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 94% to 89% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

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