Ortonville Secondary

As a small secondary school in ORTONVILLE, Minnesota, Ortonville Secondary educates 228 students from grades 7 through 12, part of Ortonville Public Schools. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 371 students each, so Ortonville Secondary sits 39% leaner than that benchmark.

Ortonville Public Schools comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 510 students; Ortonville Secondary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Ortonville Secondary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Ortonville Secondary has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.1:1. The state averages around 16.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 34% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Ortonville Secondary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.9%; this one delivers 41.5%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Big Stone County shows median household earnings sit near $70,400, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Big Stone County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 843 students), Ortonville Secondary is one campus in the mix.

Knoll Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Ortonville Secondary. On composite proficiency, Ortonville Secondary comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 58.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Ortonville Secondary's enrollment has grew 3% since 2018, when it stood at 221 (now 228). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 today.

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