LANCASTER SECONDARY

LANCASTER SECONDARY is a high school of tiny scale in LANCASTER, Minnesota, overseen by LANCASTER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, educateing 86 students in grades 7 through 12. That puts it 77% smaller than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 371 students.

LANCASTER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 208 students; LANCASTER SECONDARY is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LANCASTER SECONDARY shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Other groups include 5% Black, 2% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Kittson County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, LANCASTER SECONDARY records 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. Around 50% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, LANCASTER SECONDARY sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 38.2%; actual is 24.1%, a gap of -14.0 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Kittson County put median household earnings sit near $76,100, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Kittson County runs 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 634 students), of which LANCASTER SECONDARY is one.

Nearest neighbor: LANCASTER ELEMENTARY, around 0.0 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LANCASTER SECONDARY ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 45.1%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Five-year trend. LANCASTER SECONDARY's enrollment has grew 12% since 2018, when it stood at 77 (now 86). White enrollment moved from 83% to 91% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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