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Le Sueur-Henderson Middle/High
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 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 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Minnesota's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Le Sueur-Henderson Middle/High
Le Sueur-Henderson Middle/High is a high school of average-sized scale in LE SUEUR, Minnesota, part of LE SUEUR-HENDERSON SCHOOL DISTRICT, works with 500 students in grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 35% bigger than the state mean of about 371.
Within LE SUEUR-HENDERSON SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 4 schools and 1,134 students, Le Sueur-Henderson Middle/High is one campus in the system.
Demographically, Le Sueur-Henderson Middle/High records that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 16% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 91% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.
On the resource side, Around 31% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Le Sueur-Henderson Middle/High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.6%; this one delivers 58.8%.
In the surrounding community, census data for Le Sueur County shows median household earnings sit near $94,968, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Le Sueur County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,869 students), Le Sueur-Henderson Middle/High is one campus in the mix.
LE SUEUR-HENDERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Le Sueur-Henderson Middle/High. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Le Sueur-Henderson Middle/High ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 32.3%.
The school occupies a countryside site.
Looking at the recent track record. Le Sueur-Henderson Middle/High's enrollment has ticked up 64% since 2018, when it stood at 304 (now 500).
Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Le Sueur County at a glance
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Related schools
- Le Sueur-Henderson ElementaryElementary · 390 students
- LE SUEUR-HENDERSON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 226 students
- Hilltop ALPHigh · 18 students
- HILLTOP ELEMENTARYCombined
- Le Sueur-Henderson ElementaryElementary · 390 students
- LE SUEUR-HENDERSON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 226 students
- LE SUEUR-HENDERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL0.0 mi · 226
- Le Sueur-Henderson Elementary0.1 mi · 390
- Hilltop ALP4.4 mi · 18
- EDVISIONS OFF CAMPUS SCHOOL4.9 mi · 98
- MINNESOTA NEW COUNTRY SCHOOL4.9 mi · 136
- Minnesota New Country Elementary4.9 mi · 81