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PEQUOT LAKES SENIOR HIGH
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Set in PEQUOT LAKES, Minnesota, PEQUOT LAKES SENIOR HIGH is a sprawling 9-12 campus, part of PEQUOT LAKES PUBLIC SCHOOLS. It works with 599 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 61% above the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 371 students.
PEQUOT LAKES SENIOR HIGH is one of 3 schools operated by PEQUOT LAKES PUBLIC SCHOOLS, a district that instructs 1,737 students overall.
On the student-mix side, PEQUOT LAKES SENIOR HIGH shows that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.3:1, putting PEQUOT LAKES SENIOR HIGH tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 30% of students at PEQUOT LAKES SENIOR HIGH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Crow Wing County (around 40%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
After controlling for student poverty, PEQUOT LAKES SENIOR HIGH sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.0%; this one delivers 48.8%.
Across the wider county, Crow Wing County reports that the typical household earns roughly $72,589 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Crow Wing County runs 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,399 students), of which PEQUOT LAKES SENIOR HIGH is one.
The closest other public school is PEQUOT LAKES MIDDLE, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around PEQUOT LAKES SENIOR HIGH. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PEQUOT LAKES SENIOR HIGH at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 49.6%.
The school occupies a low-density site.
Five-year trend. PEQUOT LAKES SENIOR HIGH's enrollment has climbed 10% since 2018, when it stood at 547 (now 599). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.
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