LEROY SECONDARY

Set in LEROY, Minnesota, LEROY SECONDARY is a rural-scale four-year high school, one of the schools within LEROY-OSTRANDER PUBLIC SCHOOLS. It enrolls 138 students across grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 63% leaner than the state mean of about 371.

LEROY-OSTRANDER PUBLIC SCHOOLS runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 258 students. LEROY SECONDARY is one of those campuses.

On demographics, LEROY SECONDARY records that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

On the resource side, LEROY SECONDARY logs 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.2:1. The state averages around 16.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 27% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Mower County's rate of about 55%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LEROY SECONDARY falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 50.7%; this one comes in at 23.6%, -27.1 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Mower County indicate median household earnings sit near $73,074, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Mower County's 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,434 students), LEROY SECONDARY is one campus in the mix.

LEROY ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LEROY SECONDARY ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 51.6%.

LEROY SECONDARY operates from a low-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. LEROY SECONDARY's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 141 (now 138). Class-load math has rose: from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 in 2025.

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