Lyle High School

Lyle High School is a four-year high school of micro-enrollment scale in LYLE, Minnesota, overseen by LYLE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosting 82 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 78% leaner than the state mean of about 371.

LYLE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 306 students. Lyle High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Lyle High School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%); the rest reads as 11% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Mower County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 49% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Lyle High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.9%; this one delivers 36.8%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Mower County) shows that median household income runs about $73,074, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Mower County's 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,434 students), Lyle High School is one campus in the mix.

LYLE ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Lyle High School. On composite proficiency, Lyle High School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 57.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lyle High School has shrank 38%, going from 132 students in 2018 to 82 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 8.3:1 in 2025.

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