MINNEOTA SECONDARY
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Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 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 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MINNEOTA SECONDARY
Located at 504 N MONROE ST, in MINNEOTA, Minnesota, MINNEOTA SECONDARY is an intimate secondary school that caters to 296 students (grades 7 through 12), one of the schools within MINNEOTA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. Enrollment runs roughly 20% below the state mean of about 371.
Across the 2 schools in MINNEOTA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT (554 students total), MINNEOTA SECONDARY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, MINNEOTA SECONDARY shows that nearly all students (91%) are White; the rest comes out to 5% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. Roughly 24% of students at MINNEOTA SECONDARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Lyon County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, MINNEOTA SECONDARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.0%, the actual is 57.2%, a residual of +5.2 points.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Lyon County) reports that median household earnings sit near $75,303, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. MINNEOTA SECONDARY is one of 21 public schools in Lyon County (combined enrollment of about 4,803 students).
MINNEOTA ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, MINNEOTA SECONDARY comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 42.2%.
MINNEOTA SECONDARY operates from a small-town location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 3%: 287 students in 2018 compared to 296 in 2025.
Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Lyon County at a glance
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