MELROSE SECONDARY

Located at 546 5TH AVE NE, in MELROSE, Minnesota, MELROSE SECONDARY is a reasonably sized high school that enrolls 505 students (grades 9 through 12), part of MELROSE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. Compared to the state average of about 371 students per school, that is 36% above typical.

Within MELROSE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 3 schools and 1,313 students, MELROSE SECONDARY is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, MELROSE SECONDARY logs that 71% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 28% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.3:1, putting MELROSE SECONDARY higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 34% of students at MELROSE SECONDARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Stearns County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MELROSE SECONDARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.0%, the actual is 48.8%, a residual of +1.8 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Stearns County indicate the typical household earns roughly $77,066 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Stearns County's 74 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,160 students), MELROSE SECONDARY is one campus in the mix.

MELROSE MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around MELROSE SECONDARY. On composite proficiency, MELROSE SECONDARY comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 38.5%.

MELROSE SECONDARY operates from a low-density location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MELROSE SECONDARY has contracted 5%, going from 534 students in 2018 to 505 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 78% to 71%.

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