MINNESOTA NEW COUNTRY SCHOOL

MINNESOTA NEW COUNTRY SCHOOL operates as a micro-enrollment high school in HENDERSON, Minnesota, part of Minnesota New Country School. Current enrollment sits at 136 students spanning grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 371 students each, so MINNESOTA NEW COUNTRY SCHOOL sits 63% below that benchmark.

Within Minnesota New Country School, which oversees 2 schools and 217 students, MINNESOTA NEW COUNTRY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, MINNESOTA NEW COUNTRY SCHOOL records that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 4% multiracial, 2% Hispanic.

Looking at the economic backdrop, MINNESOTA NEW COUNTRY SCHOOL reports 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. An estimated 33% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, MINNESOTA NEW COUNTRY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 47.3%; actual is 28.1%, a gap of -19.2 points.

Across the wider county, Sibley County reports that median household income runs about $77,634, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Sibley County's 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,034 students), MINNESOTA NEW COUNTRY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is EDVISIONS OFF CAMPUS SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MINNESOTA NEW COUNTRY SCHOOL comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.8%.

The school occupies a low-density site. MINNESOTA NEW COUNTRY SCHOOL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 4%: 131 students in 2018 compared to 136 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked up from 87% to 92% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 8.2:1 today.

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