Lewiston-Altura Secondary

Lewiston-Altura Secondary operates as an average-sized senior high in LEWISTON, Minnesota, run under Lewiston-Altura Public School Dist. Current enrollment sits at 337 students spanning grades 6 through 12.

Across the 2 schools in Lewiston-Altura Public School Dist (591 students total), Lewiston-Altura Secondary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lewiston-Altura Secondary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%); the rest breaks down as 11% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Lewiston-Altura Secondary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.5%, the actual is 48.5%, a residual of +0.9 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Winona County shows the typical household earns roughly $70,744 per year, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Winona County runs 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,580 students), of which Lewiston-Altura Secondary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Lewiston-Altura Elementary, around 0.7 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 4 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lewiston-Altura Secondary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 46.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lewiston-Altura Secondary has ticked down 11%, going from 379 students in 2018 to 337 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 93% to 83% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

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