NRHEG SECONDARY

As an average-sized 9-12 campus in NEW RICHLAND, Minnesota, NRHEG SECONDARY educates 408 students from grades 6 through 12, part of NRHEG SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Within NRHEG SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 2 schools and 762 students, NRHEG SECONDARY is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, NRHEG SECONDARY reports that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, NRHEG SECONDARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.3%; this one delivers 33.6%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Waseca County) reports that median household income runs about $76,261, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Waseca County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,915 students), NRHEG SECONDARY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: NRHEG ELEMENTARY, around 10.0 miles off. On composite proficiency, NRHEG SECONDARY comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 38.8%.

NRHEG SECONDARY operates from a low-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 17%: 494 students in 2018 compared to 408 in 2025.

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