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NEW LONDON-SPICER SR.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About NEW LONDON-SPICER SR.
Set in NEW LONDON, Minnesota, NEW LONDON-SPICER SR. is a moderately sized secondary school, run under NEW LONDON-SPICER SCHOOL DISTRICT. It works with 448 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 371 students each, so NEW LONDON-SPICER SR. sits 21% larger than that benchmark.
NEW LONDON-SPICER SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,518 students; NEW LONDON-SPICER SR. is among them.
In terms of who attends, NEW LONDON-SPICER SR. records that nearly all students (94%) are White. Beyond that, the school lists 5% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, NEW LONDON-SPICER SR. has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.7:1. The state averages around 16.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 20% of students at NEW LONDON-SPICER SR. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Kandiyohi County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, NEW LONDON-SPICER SR. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.4%, the actual is 51.5%, a residual of -2.9 points.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Kandiyohi County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,592 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Kandiyohi County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,213 students), NEW LONDON-SPICER SR. is one campus in the mix.
NEW LONDON-SPICER 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 NEW LONDON-SPICER SR.. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts NEW LONDON-SPICER SR. at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 38.6%.
Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at NEW LONDON-SPICER SR. has rose 3%, going from 437 students in 2018 to 448 in 2025.
Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for NEW LONDON-SPICER SR. typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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