LANESBORO SECONDARY
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Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 48% 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.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About LANESBORO SECONDARY
LANESBORO SECONDARY is a secondary school of compact scale in LANESBORO, Minnesota, one of the schools within LANESBORO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosting 193 students in grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 48% below the state mean of about 371.
Across the 2 schools in LANESBORO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT (442 students total), LANESBORO SECONDARY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, LANESBORO SECONDARY logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). The remainder is composed of 2% multiracial. Compared to Fillmore County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, LANESBORO SECONDARY has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.1:1. The state averages around 16.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 31% of students at LANESBORO SECONDARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LANESBORO SECONDARY falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 48.4%; this one comes in at 34.2%, -14.2 points off the demographic line.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Fillmore County put median household income runs about $77,512, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Fillmore County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,946 students), of which LANESBORO SECONDARY is one.
Nearest neighbor: LANESBORO ELEMENTARY, around 0.0 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, LANESBORO SECONDARY comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.7%.
Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.
Looking at the recent track record. LANESBORO SECONDARY's enrollment has ticked up 19% since 2018, when it stood at 162 (now 193). The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 today.
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