Journeys Alternative Program

Students in HOWARD LAKE, Minnesota, attend Journeys Alternative Program, a very small elementary school. The school offers kindergarten through 8 and enrolls 9 students. The school is 97% below the average for elementary schools in Minnesota.

Journeys Alternative Program sits within Meeker and Wright Special Education, which has 9 schools and 190 students.

Of every 100 students at Journeys Alternative Program, about 67 are White. The rest of enrollment is 22% multiracial and 11% Hispanic. Among all residents of Wright County, the White share is about 89%.

The student-to-teacher ratio is 2.3:1. The school has 3.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Minnesota is 13.7:1. In all, 67% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 24% average for public schools in Wright County is 43 points.

Wright County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $107,209, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 34%, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. There are 88 public schools in the county, enrolling about 27,879, Journeys Alternative Program among them.

Of the public schools around it, Journeys Alternative Program is closest to Trek Program, less than a tenth of a mile away. Journeys Alternative Program has at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

Journeys Alternative Program falls in the Rural: Distant locale category, used for schools in rural territory some distance from an urban area.

The school's size has been steady, with 9 students in 2020-21 and 9 in 2024-25. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (2.3:1) than in 2020-21 (4.5:1).

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